Word: closet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well," said the perpetrator later, as he was making an inventory of his liquor closet, "I'm going to fill it with champagne Thursday morning so that people won't take their exams too seriously...
...first move towards reform must be a change in the attitude of the Department to the skeleton in its closet. The qualities of poise and self-possession, of persuasion and logic and clear, quick thinking come from practice in public speaking, and in the long run the student will probably find them of more value than the history of the novel. English F should be bolstered by two regular half courses, one open to Freshmen in the primary tricks of speaking, and one to teach the advance principles. There is an ancient bogey that such courses would be "snaps", arising...
...British Royal Family have long had this basic reality embedded in their natures, and last week in King Edward VIII's hour of sorest indecision it tipped the scales. He left England as the eldest son who has locked a rattling skeleton in the Empire's closet and thrown away the key. Not ungrateful to opportune Winston Churchill, who had offered and sought to form a party of "King's men" to fight the issue out in Parliament, His Majesty rewarded this active British son of a U. S. mother last week with a discreetly private lunch...
...Call a Heart a Heart are beginning to suffer from the audience's apprehension that the next sequence may be pennies from heaven in a submarine, or pennies from heaven with the Spanish Revolution. Best bit: black Louis Armstrong with his band rendering "Skeleton in the Closet...
...stories themselves range widely, are marked with sharp observation, originality, occasional repetitiousness. Each successive story deals with an older character, the first four with small children, the last three with oldsters. One tells of a little girl sitting in a closet thinking of the death of her baby brother. In another a schoolboy becomes uncomfortably aware of his mother's jealousy of his teacher. One tells the story of a Negro porter on a cross-country bus, another the troubles of two young mechanics whose garage business is threatened by the arrival of a blonde...