Word: backdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know," says the man. "I don't know," says the next man. All is confusion. The firemen have not yet come. The front hall is full of flames. Some men are pounding at the locked backdoor...
Upon her return to Scotland, Mary and her counselors formed ambitious plans for marrying her to Don Carlos, son of morose Philip of Spain, or to the Archduke of Austria, or into the royal family of France. Scotland was the backdoor to England. Queen Elizabeth was determined Mary should make no "mighty marriage," was fertile in expedients, threats, cajolery. Her Scottish Protestant counselors urged her to a decision as to Mary's marriage: "Remember how earnestly she is sought otherwyse; you see the lustiness of her boddie, you know what these thynges require . . . Loss of her time is our destruction...
...western high school students. Most people believe that a larger representation of this class is highly desirable. Harvard's entrance requirements are so rigid and rules as to "conditions" are so severe that few men undertake the examinations. Too many of those who wish to come East prefer the "backdoor method" of entrance, via some other college. In this way the present system completely defeats its own end and secures students whose intellectual ability has not been tested by Harvard standards, a disadvantage both to the college and to the individual...