Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest, 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor in the Federated Malay States. The Sultan, happily attired to meet the demands of East & West in yellow silk trousers and a European overcoat, stood boggle-eyed before the hotel's rapidly twirling swing-door, was completely baffled. With Oriental arrogance he tried to pass through in the opposite direction to that in which the door was turning, got his yellow trousers caught, only managed to escape after muttering Malayan curses. More successful was his favorite wife, youthful Inche Anjong...
...Other endow ments, increase of investment values, savings from income, etc. have swelled this hoard to $1,808,000. In 1919 the will of Charles L. Freer of Detroit provided nearly $2,000,000 to manage the art collections which he had already donated and housed next door to the Institution head quarters. This has increased to $4,770,000 bringing the total of the Smithsonian's investments to $6,577,000. Of this, $1,000,000 is deposited in the Treasury and draws 6% by law; the rest is in stocks, bonds, mortgages, bank accounts. At year...
...next morning, looking slimmer and paler than she had for some months, Elizabeth Smith took the family dog for a customary walk. Later that Saturday the Smith neighborhood was in an uproar of police car sirens, screeching housewives, giggling boys and girls. In the airshaft of the tenement next door to the Smiths', a newborn baby boy had been found dead, apparently dropped from the roof. Easter Sunday, detectives asked childish Elizabeth Smith if the dead child were hers. "Yes." said...
...taken by John Davison Rockefeller Jr., on an apartment at No. 740 Park Avenue. It meant the removal, next spring, of the Rockefeller home from the eight-story grey mansion on West 54th Street, reputedly the tallest private house in New York City when "Mr. Junior" built it next door to his father's home in 1912. In moving to the first apartment he has ever lived in (two floors, 16 rooms), Mr. Rockefeller passed up two new apartment buildings he is completing on 54th and 55th Streets for executives who, like himself, have offices in his monumental Rockefeller...
...tune with ancient tradition Lord Hugh was installed last week in the presence of the genial and patriarchal Dean of Windsor representing King Edward VIII, Eton's Fellows, scholarly Eton Headmaster Claude Aurelius ('The Emperor") Elliott, and 1,100 top-hatted Etonians. Up to the outer doors of School Yard walked Lord Hugh with stately, processional steps. His three knocks on the great oak door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School...