Word: closets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Jan. 28 article goes into great detail about the personal expenditures of the royal family and some of the skeletons that are in its closet. This treatment of the situation, which is as difficult for Americans to understand as our mores are for the Saudi Arab, is immature. There is no doubt that Americans are irritated by some Saudi laws, but it should be remembered that the Saudis might also be irritated by some American customs. It is, after all, their country. JOHN BOLES Assistant Professor Loyola University of Los Angeles Los Angeles...
...mild blackouts, but that afternoon she recounted a weirdly disturbing episode: one day, of which she had no recollection, she must have gone out and bought a lot of flashy clothes-enough to put her and her husband Ralph in debt for years. The evidence was in her closet...
...carefully wiped the soles of their shoes before entering, and checked around the drab, faded rooms. In George's meticulously kept garage-workshop they found a lathe. Said one cop, patting the machine: "Here we have the whole story." But back in the house, behind washtubs in a closet, they found another chapter: short pieces of pipe, three cheap pocket watches and some flashlight batteries. With hardly more than a nod from the cops, George put on his street clothes with his customary fastidiousness, bade his moaning sisters goodbye, and, beaming through his round, gold-rimmed glasses like...
...months, Jail Escapee Richard Heinz admitted that he hid out for the entire time in his wife's apartment, left only in the late evening for burglary forays, avoided alerting neighbors by ducking windows, teaching his three children to call him "Cowboy" instead of daddy, hid in a closet whenever cops, sheriff's deputies or the FBI searched the place...
...Lonely Singer. Okichi, the first of Author Yamata's geishas, has a special interest for Americans as a kind of lively skeleton in the U.S. diplomatic closet. Just short of 100 years ago, it was Okichi's destiny at the age of 18 to be assigned as paramour to 50-year-old Townsend Harris, first U.S. consul to Japan. Indeed, Harris, a white-thatched descendant of Roger Williams, threatened to break off trade treaty negotiations with Japanese officialdom until the girl was installed in his living quarters near the seacoast town of Shimoda. Long before she caught...