Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Square-jawed Stanley Baldwin in a billowing grey ulster and a bullet-hard bowler hat motored to Windsor Castle early last week to kiss the King's hand, resign as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Waiting at the palace door to receive him was the King's equerry and grouse-shooting friend, Col. Sir Clive Wigram, and King George's favorite grandchild, little Princess Elizabeth, soberly staring over the top of her perambulator. Stanley Baldwin bowed solemnly to "P'incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King...
...quiet office marched two strangely hilarious young men with curiously mottled skin. They shook hands violently with everyone in the room, then demanded to see the Minister of Agriculture, C. Argetoianu. "My God!" screamed the Minister's secretary, "Lepers! Unclean! Unclean!" Bravely he stationed himself before the door of his chief's sanctum while panic-stricken clerks and minor officials, overturning chairs and tables, stampeded to the outer air. Prudent Minister Argetoianu remained behind his desk while the piebald lepers shouted maledictions at the government, protested at the food and living conditions in Rumania's state lazaretto...
...malady incurable, he said last week: "Of course, I don't want to go-this is a mighty interesting world and I'm having a mighty good time in it. But I'm no more afraid of it (death) than I am of walking through the door to this study, for I know that I shall have a spiritual body to do with as I please and won't have to worry about the aches and pains. . . . This world has been very good...
Last week in the Vatican a huge intricately carved bronze door, one half of which had been closed since 1870, was slowly pushed wide open. Thus by symbolism, long a power and fascination of the Roman Catholic Church, did Pope Pius XI announce to the world and to the city the consummation of Italy's Church-&-State reconciliation, the ultimate and formal exchange of signed treaties...
...Bakers are visited daily; grocers triweekly. A transportation subsidiary and 900 agencies see to it that contacts are never broken. In March 1918, a blizzard struck Chicago, kept the 41 Fleischmann delivery trucks in their garages. Thereupon the Fleischmann Chicago personnel equipped itself with yeast-packed satchels, made a door-to-door journey to Fleischmann customers...