Word: closet
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...deluged by complaints about the messy living quarters, lack of closet space, and the inavailability of trunks which have been stacked in the basement of Yard halls...
...Although I cannot clip coupons with TIME'S typical male reader, I can boast of a clothes closet just as crowded...
...morning last fortnight, a detail of U.S. customs officers quietly moved in on a pile of 600 neat, wooden crates. Customs Inspector Jacob Ehrlich pried into one of the crates with a crowbar. Cried he: "Just as I thought!" His companions pressed closer, saw a gleaming white water closet. They seized the entire $10,500 shipment...
...already become as standard in movies as the closeup. Shakespeare's descriptive and narrative speeches are pictured on the screen, and by this device, Olivier sometimes even manages to enhance the language. Ophelia's description of Hamlet's "madness" (As I was sewing in my closet) gives the two of them a lovely passage of pantomime, never played before. Ophelia's drowning (There is a willow grows aslant a brook) is derived from the Millais painting, and improves...
...electronic television at the New York World's Fair in 1939. (Britain's BBC, using a lot of U.S. equipment, had a three-year head start.) Before the U.S. could take a good look, the war interfered; the toy had to be put back in the closet for five years. When it was examined again, it had two heads: one (a CBS product) was gaudy with all the colors of the spectrum; the other (by RCA) was black & white. Since the industry could not go off in both directions, and still take the public along,* the Federal Communications...