Word: closets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday were it not for Innovation Trunk Co. and Innovator Seymour W. Bonsall. In 1897 Mr. Bonsall was a Manhattan stock broker, but interested in inventions as well as in the market. To him, in a dream, came the vision of a trunk which should be a portable closet rather than a travelling chest of drawers. Awakening, Mr. Bonsall remembered his dream, built the first wardrobe trunk. It looked much like the old style bulbous trunks, but in its interior were racks for hangers, thus embodying the essential principle of the modern trunk in which clothing is hung rather than...
...smoking stand in the shape of a purple camel with an ash tray on each hump and a stack of matches in each car. The result of his visit to the pedlars and pushcarts of the metropolis across the Charles was tremendously successful. For the Vagabond's wood-closet is now piled high with assorted containers of everything from velocipedes and sewing machines to a porcelain statuette of Buddha for Aunt Agatha, who has just discovered the possibilities of Oriental art. The triumph of which he is really proudest, however, does not lie in the impressive pile of his purchases...
...composer of "This Year of Grace" Mr. Noel Coward last night was a benefaction. His songs and satires were of an upper class, ranging from competent to superlative, and the fleet manner in which they sped along made Mr. Cochran's London revue one of the merriest, of its closet type. Mr. Coward was not, however, so brilliant as a musical comedian. Unendowed with the impish attributes of a clown, his efforts were slightly laborious, and he sang in a weedy voice and danced with small facility. But when he grew dramatic in a tragic number reminiscent of his famous...
...Smith has brought the matter [Prohibition] into the open; he has destroyed the atmosphere of secrecy and insincerity that surrounded it; it cannot again be relegated to the hush-hush closet. From sheer gratitude for this clearing of a most poisonous atmosphere-which the Republican party and Mr. Hoover are both breathing and perpetuating-I shall vote for Mr. Smith...
...term "surprised." Both told Jonkheer Loudon that their governments could not countenance a reversion to "Secret Diplomacy." Since Britain and France have just come to a secret naval understanding (TIME, Aug. 13) the indignation of their representatives was akin to that of small boys caught in the jam closet...