Word: closets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarts of whiskey concealed in the athletes' luggage. The contraband liquor was seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...
...capable and same editors there is no fear that the pendulum will swing too far and crash into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet of Harper's may enclose as many...
...then one spring afternoon in 1925, a detective calmly pushed past Mr. Stephenson's butler, found the Grand Dragon upstairs in a closet, took him away in a patrol wagon. An unsavory and sensational case. It was vaguely known that D. C. Stephenson had possessed some sort of political influence and the courtroom was filled. The judge, in his instructions to the jury, summed up the evidence somewhat as follows...
...colonial Mansion, soon to house an ancient matron, ghosts will walk. For the Widow now has skeletons within her closet. Since that famous gentleman who built the excellent tradition of the Widow's has departed, the Lady of Learning has waned. Indeed, more than a new carapace is needed--body, soul are requsite. For even a tutoring school must have both...
...while he was studying at Iowa State College that William Hornaday, a vigorous, tar-haired Hoosier, came upon the works of Naturalist John J. Audubon and determined thenceforth to devote himself, not to natural history in a scientist's closet, but to discovering and teaching popularly the wonders of the animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds...