Word: storeroom
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Police investigators quickly discovered that it was diplomatic liquor the burglars were after. They had jimmied their way into the legation, almost wrecked the liquor storeroom in the basement. At the back fence, cases were stacked up for removal. Seventeen boxes of fine whiskey had already been hauled away...
Under international law Dr. Leiva could collect handsome damages from the U. S. Government for his injuries and the rape of his liquor storeroom. Following U. S. precedent, he might even land Salvadorean marines in Washington to safeguard Salvadorean life & property. Good-humored, he took no action, made no claim...
...storeroom of Madison Square Garden, piled high through most of the year, is a big heap of pine board sections dusted with splinters and pockmarked with uncountable little holes where the spikes of runners have prodded down into the soft wood. Last week the board track with its splintery topography telling illegibly of past races was set up again for the national indoor meet of the Amateur Athletic Union...
...masses have been meat & drink to Roxy since 1907 when in Forest City, Pa. he gave his first moving-picture show, using a vacant storeroom and seats borrowed from an undertaker. His career before that was varied. His parents moved to Manhattan from Stillwater, Minn, when he was 12, set him to work as cash boy in a 14th Street department store. He peddled books for a while, served seven years with the Marines. The movie experiment in Forest City settled his ambition. He ran theatres in Minneapolis and Milwaukee before he returned to Manhattan, started elaborating his programs, including...