Word: closet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrong. His very rages and imprecations are treasured in musicians' memories, his broken batons are collected and respectfully preserved. In a rehearsal tantrum several years ago he rushed off the stage, scurried up the stairs to his dressing room, pounded his fists against the door of a closet until the wood paneling splintered. A lady Philharmonic subscriber heard of the incident, drove with her chauffeur to the stage entrance, begged to be given the door as a sacred relic. Allowed to carry off a few of the splinters, she took them reverently home to be enshrined...
Portia on Trial (Republic). Frieda Inescort rattles the skeletons in the closet of ruthless Publisher Clarence Kolb to free Heather Angel of a murder charge...
...sublimations in bathrooms, on bay windows, hired a man to douse him with water when working on a marine subject. Mother Pemberton (Mary Boland) was notable for an insane kind of poise which she maintained even when the cook got drunk and had to be locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family for three dollars to pay her bookmaker. Papa Pemberton (Etienne Girardot) might have received the Nobel Prize for breaking down the atom if Junior had not objected that the award would overshadow his fame as a child prodigy...
...Prince Charming. That awful Mrs. O'Hemingway--I have yet to find out who is her husband--hangs around all the time; comes into the room, yelling, "Is Mrs. Goodman here? Oh, Mrs. Goodman, did you get the pail and mop I forgot to put in the closet? I just wanted to see if . . . " Then she looks around to spot Prince Charming, and if he happens to be there, she flushes and pretends to be embarrassed. The vixen...
...started to take in the wash. It was on one of those hellish, back-breaking pulley lines. She had removed the first clothespin, when she lost her balance and hurtled out the window. She fell two stories to the concrete below into a space about as big as a closet. She struck the drainpipe to my aunt's flat and this broke her fall...