City residents created ingenious places to conceal their liquor, and Eric Schiller was thrilled to discover such a place in the Victorian house he bought last year on Westminster Road in Prospect Park South.
The project took twelve years and involved scores of dredges: blowing up massive amounts of submerged rock, digging hundreds of millions of tons of rock, mud, and sand, and putting the contaminated spoils under future luxury golf courses and in other ingenious places.
Customs officials have discovered a host of ingenious hiding places, from $3 million secreted in the floor of a Mexican passenger bus to $1.6 million stuffed in duffel bags and balanced atop the heads of people wading across the Rio Grande to Mexico.
She imagined that there was a protocol for this kind of emergency: surely they would remove the dead body from the sight of the other passengers — perhaps lay her mother on the floor of the galley at the back of the plane, cover her with some of those too thin blankets, or roll her into one of those ingenious storage places airplanes specialized in.
"Papa's ingenious irony had placed a foolscap on the top, immediately overshadowing the man in the moon & the Pope of Rome; crowns and helmets, paper flags & necklaces sparkled among the foliage & we all, old children and young, gave ourselves up to the enthusiasm of the moment.
First, it gives Kant a new and ingenious way of placing modern science on an a priori foundation.
American statesmen of that era could scarcely have imagined today's situation, in which men and women spend a lifetime in politics devising ever more ingenious ways to fortify their place in office by rigging district boundaries for elections and by making it more difficult for outsiders to mount challenges.
The octopus was enticed from its hiding place by an ingenious lure made of leopard cowrie shells.
Now, stone retaining walls hold soil and plants in place, and an ingenious drainage system designed by Vollmer Associates of New York channels torrential downpours away from the pond.
Quite a bit of the action in his most famous film, the clammy, ingenious 1955 thriller "Diabolique," takes place on the damp grounds of a school where the headmaster's wife and mistress plot, and later try to cover up, his murder.
