Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a view was not surprising among followers of the Saintly German peasant whose ecclesiastical reveries, nailed on a church door at Wittenberg four centuries ago, divided all Germany (and many another country later) into Protestant and Catholic political parties...
Outside an office building, in Lichtenburg, South Africa, stood a solitary man. He wanted to enter an office but it was closed. Also he wanted to be first to enter, so he dared not leave the door lest someone take his place. So he waited, sleeping by his post at night, and nights were cold last week in Lichtenburg...
...fears that someone might try to take his place were not groundless. Other men soon joined him. They too slept in front of the door...
Then came more and more men until there were 1,500. Then the door opened, four days after the first man had arrived, for he, eager, had arrived four days early on purpose...
...this year's Nominees for President of the U. S. spent several anxious hours last week on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel La Salle, Chicago. He frowned often, conferred with friends, stared down his nose, hovered near a closed door behind which a meeting of his party's national executive committee was in session...