Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual Home & Farm Week. The President looked out of the window at snow falling and told her to telephone if she got caught in a ditch. "All right," said she, "I'll telephone you from the snow drift." "And she would, too," said the President after the door closed. She did not telephone, however. She and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. drove to Ithaca with a good chauffeur and there she marched in a fashion parade for the benefit of the Home & Farm Weekers, modeling her inauguration gowns...
Raising one of their steel rams, the besiegers began to batter at a nailed-shut door. Down on them rained a shower of bolts, nuts, pulleys, bottles filled with nitric acid. Behind a barrage of tear gas, the officers joined battle. Strikers turned on the plant's ventilating system, cleared out the gas almost as fast as it came in. One excited deputy was burned with his own gas bomb. Acid containers hit two policemen, splashed them painfully. One striker quit the plant badly gassed. After two hours the officers ran out of tear gas and Sheriff Doolittle...
After 15 months the old Senator claimed his mistress had betrayed his business secrets, ordered his hotel managers to throw her out. They had to take her door off its hinges and pull up her carpet before they succeeded. Senator Sharon gave her a fat cash settlement, thought he was through with her. But after two years Sarah Althea produced a marriage contract she claimed they had signed, also displayed letters from him which began, "Dear Wife." The Senator brought suit in Federal court to have the papers declared forgeries. Sarah Althea countered with a State court divorce suit charging...
When a customer enters a telephone booth and closes the door, a switch located in the ceiling and connected to the door by a rod turns on the light. In some booths it starts a ventilating fan. Switches heretofore used for this purpose were mechanical ones which had moving parts to wear out and which made what Bell Telephone Laboratories considered a disagreeable noise...
Described in Bell Laboratories Record last week was a booth switch in the form of a small glass tube containing a pellet of mercury, which is a good conductor of electricity. When the door is open the mercury remains at one end of the tube. Closing the door tilts it so that the mercury rolls to the other end, closing a circuit between two electrodes, lighting the light and starting the fan. This little switch makes no noise, has no moving parts...