Word: door
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice for good. At 20, Addie Belle silently conceived and bore an illegitimate child which her mother called Annabelle. Overcome by shame, Addie Belle Barton retreated with Annabelle to a bare bedroom on the first floor of her parents' old frame house. She rarely emerged, often locked the door, kept frisky little Annabelle well hidden from neighbors' prying eyes. Sometimes at night Addie Belle's mother would tiptoe across the sticky linoleum floor and listen at Addie Belle's bed. The sleeping girl-mother babbled long monologues in gibberish...
...thrown out of the schoolhouse. Home he went, not to mother but to get one of mother's guns. Armed with a .22 calibre target pistol, he returned to school muttering threats and waving his gun. Schoolteacher Mitchell made no effort to stop the rush for the door, was glad when all his charges were safely out. prudently retreated himself. Chris, found some hours later at his home by the sheriff, surrendered his gun, which he said had not been loaded...
...does not spell failure. From the readiness of Harvard students to send an ambulance to Spain a year ago, it is apparent that an appeal to their pockets for what seems a more practical humanitarian aim will receive full response. But we think that the appeal will succeed without door-to-door canvassing. As the incident of the Spanish ambulance showed, such a procedure adds the distasteful angle of compulsion to what should be purely voluntary contributions. By prominent display money can be collected just as well in the dining halls and in classroom entries...
Last month the U. S. protested that Japan had closed besieged China's "Open Door" to U. S. business. Chapter & verse of specific violations of the Nine Power Treaty of 1922 were sent from Washington to Tokyo. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye observed that there was a "new order" in East Asia, and the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared that the Nine Power Treaty was "obsolete...
...explanation for this whimsey was a solid fact. The King of England had put through a call to Lord Beaverbrook in Manhattan asking him to return and continue to advise His Majesty. Hurrying through the back door of Buckingham Palace, Beaverbrook was closeted with Edward for hours over endless Scotch-and-sodas. But it was then too late. The abdication had been agreed upon...