Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stage Door-after many a heartache, Margaret Sullavan crashes big-time show business...
...Louisiana judge, a juvenile officer and a welfare worker decided that Mrs. Erne Crawford was fit to mother the baby boy whom she first swore a brindle dog dropped at her Louisiana cabin door, then admitted she had borne guiltily back of her woodshed (TIME, Nov. 23). Louis Crawford, her pious, abstinent, pale-eyed cuckold, after a good tussle with the Holy Spirit, last week pulled in his horns, took Effie and their two young sons across Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans' Charity Hospital to claim the babe...
...Manhattan to sell an oil concession he held on 1,200,000 acres of his native jungle, dropped into the Standard Oil Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold the rest to Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service...
...through classes the dream is in my mind. Afterwards to wander aimlessly . . . Shepard Hall. The sign on the door reads, "Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research; Driver Test Clinic." Some impulse moves me inside. A professor beside a machine that seems a cross between an airplane cockpit and the driver's seat of an automobile. "You have come for a test?" he asks. "I don't know," I reply. Without more encouragement he ushers me to the seat and bids me grasp the wheel. "When you see the red light, apply the brakes as fast...
Tickets, priced at $1.50 per couple, and $1.25 for stags, may be be purchased from members of the dance committee or secured at the door. Formal dress is optional...