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...course there has to be a woman, and there is, both beautiful and blond, but always hopelessly helpless. When Lon Chaney isn't lurking behind one door for a little game of patty-cake with the young lady, Bela Lugosi is blood-letting in her closet...
...while this classical theft goes on and on and librarians mutter occultly, button, button, who's got the button, several janitors recommend that men keep their doors locked when they leave their rooms, and play their Schubert in a dark closet...
Common behavior of teachers: locking a child in a narrow, stuffy clothes closet (I know, I spent many hours there); making him sit under the teacher's desk all day, making a child stand for hours with his feet on the ledge of the blackboard (which holds the chalk) and hold on to an old gas fixture above the blackboard; humiliating, ridiculing, insulting, and degrading a child in front of other children...
Winston Churchill reached for a towel after shaving. There was no towel. On board a British destroyer in the North Sea, his face and fingers dripping, he fumbled about in a linen closet in the captain's cabin and dried his face with the first available cloth. It turned out to be a British ensign, and is now hanging in C-33, Kirkland House, in the room of David E. Mann...
...Agencies, and plans to start collecting on July 17. You don't have to send your old records anywhere, or even cart them to Briggs and Briggs, for the American Legion is going to run a door-to-door campaign. Here is a good way to clean off that closet shelf and do your conscience a good turn at the same time...