Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Open up!" ordered the Sheriff of Orange County, rapping at the front door of a rickety ten-room frame house next to Gordonsville, Va.'s cemetery one afternoon last week. The answer was a rifle crack. A bullet plowed through the door straight into the sheriff's heart. Leaving his body crumpled on the porch, his two companions turned and fled, sure now that the old Negro cemetery caretaker, William Walles, and his old sister Cora, had gone completely...
...Alfred] and showed him in. Mr. Thomas to the best of my recollection said he was frightfully busy and could not see him. The visit did not last more than a minute or a minute and a half at the most. I was in the room holding the door, ready to close...
...guaranteeing French rights in Ethiopia, notably the French railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti in French Somaliland.* Last week Italian soldiers were swarming all over this tidy French investment, giving orders to indignantly vociferous French engineers (see p. 23). Did Italy propose, M. Flandin asked, to maintain the "open door" in Ethiopia as France has done in French Morocco...
...Roman answer was a prompt and emphatic No. Il Duce promised to give France and Britain permission to cooperate in Ethiopia with him but not through an open door...
...veins have largely run out. There remain a fine fish and oyster business, some mines and quarries, farmlands and a huge piece of South London. These monies go directly to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in London's Buckingham Gate, only 200 yards from the back door of the Palace. The new King and Admiral Halsey may sometimes be seen scuttling down the narrow street to look over the accounts of the profitable Duchy of Cornwall...