Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time enough water would have poured through the hole to fill the entire ship. Another suggestion was to have the men shoot themselves out of the torpedo tubes. One doesn't shoot himself out a tube, he merely crawls to the end, opens the door and then tries to get out. The pressure of the water at this depth would make it impossible for any of the entombed men to escape by this method...
...Wilson found his advice and services great help in getting the Covenant of the League of Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles. Wherever Jews were harassed Mr. Straus used his public power to defend them. He was pious in his religious observances; and always kept nailed to the door-posts of his homes a mezuzah, a small case containing the Israelitish creed "Hear, oh Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One," together with appropriate verses from Deuteronomy. Such a career, decided the Jewish Tribune readers, was statuesque. It deserved a memorial, and for that the magazine...
BURLESQUE-Life on the burlesque circuits seen through the stage door...
...composer who, in the flush of success, takes advantage of his wife's good nature. After she retaliates by taking advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events leading up to the reconciliation have the glitter and charm, thinned somewhat by a mediocre medium, of the writings of Arthur Schnitzler. Even as an orchestra conductor, a profession of which one is led to suspect he understands not even the rudiments, Dandy Menjou...
...driver quickly raised Mrs. Kohler and placed her in his automobile. Small Marion he placed beside her mother. The driver then drove Mrs. Kohler to her home, unlocked her door, supported her to a couch. "I will go for a doctor," said he. "I will send my own doctor to see you." With that he vanished, taking with him $42 which he had removed from Mrs. Kohler's purse...