Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a steel fire door on the film room fitted with a thermostat to close it if the temperature became too high. But sometime before, a blundering plumber had placed a water pipe in such a way that although it did not prevent the closing of the door by hand, it interfered with the aim of the automatic closing device. The door failed to close when the film began to burn and the gases (both poisonous and explosive) issuing forth, were driven through the building by a ventilating fan a few feet away...
...strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
...Sunday, Convict Sinclair received his first caller, John Hardy, a Manhattan business associate. They sat in the pharmacy talking, smoking cigars. A guard stood at the door, to bar intruders. Mr. Hardy stayed 30 minutes beyond the regulation hour for visitors...
Standard argument of the investment trust is the alleged inability of the individual to choose stocks wisely. Let older and wiser heads, operating with large amounts of capital (runs the argument) do your investing for you. Then to you the poorhouse will never beckon, and at your door no wolf will ever howl. Logical, in many ways, is this theory (though it involves faith, hope and occasionally some charity regarding investment trusts and their management) but many a U. S. investor, doggedly individualistic, will doubtless continue to pick his own issues, watch his own ticker and, if necessary, lose...
...dignity, and calm, opening and closing his eyes and his jack-knife; uttering meanwhile detached remarks, wise, gruff, biting, yet seldom lacking a kernal of kindness, till bedtime came, nine o'clock, and he was gone, the gifts--if thanks were feared--left in a chair by the door...