Word: closet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irvington, N. J., a bolt of lightning neatly split a bed on which lay William Gaylor, 19, and Jack Fitzsimmons, 6, burned a pair of bedroom slippers, took a closet door off its hinges, slipped into the bathroom and tore off all the fixtures, rambled around the kitchen and broke all the dishes, dropped into the basement, smashed the electric metre, grounded...
Nathan M. Plaut '39, who lives at 25 Stoughton Hall, found himself without a closet door yesterday...
...from Vermont whose uncle's death leaves him a fortune of twenty millions, complete with town house and a regiment of vassals from a major-domo to a pair of plug-ugly bodyguards. With a bank account that "will do in a pinch," he locks the guards in a closet and sets out on a series of binges in New York that put the metropolis in a tremble...
...hours later the two assassins lay riddled with bullets on the floor in a room in San Juan police headquarters. The police story: The two Nationalists, being questioned, suddenly leaped to seize riot guns which were exposed on a rack in an open closet. The police prevented them...
...college boys into the brig and taking them back to New York. Passengers snickered. Finally, however, the new flag was retrieved and revealed to one and all for what it was, the most important half of a pair of striped and vividly coloured pajamas that have adorned the closet and person of a Dunster Senior for lo these many months...