Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shunted back into the hall after the Hoover announcement, newshawks waited an hour. Out the door suddenly burst a wedge of Federal agents, who clattered down the corridor with Director Hoover shouting angrily at photographers, "No pictures, no pictures!" Outside, agents threw manacled, coatless Alvin Karpis into a huge red automobile, went roaring off for Shushan airport. Next morning...
...morning one John Fiorenza, 24-year-old upholsterer's assistant, went to the apartment of Lewis H. Titterton in Manhattan's quiet Beekman Place. Mr. Titterton had gone to his work as continuity editor at National Broadcasting Co., but his wife was at home, alone. At the door Fiorenza said he had called to get further instructions about repairing a couch, was admitted. Fiorenza then over-powered & raped Mrs. Titterton, knotted a rope of clothing around her neck, left her to strangle in the bathtub...
During the dry deliberations at the annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in Manhattan fortnight ago, two rival oases competed bitterly for the privilege of refreshing weary delegates. Not far from the door of the Waldorf Astoria's convention chamber, Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association lifted a banner to proclaim: "N. E. A.-WITH THE ONE & ONLY MAJOR HOOPLE!" Nearby, N. E. A.'s Hearstian arch-rival shrieked back in big black letters: "KING FEATURES- WITH THE ONE & ONLY GENE AHERN!" Purpose of the mammoth cocktail party whither this banner beckoned...
...said: 'Every gangster, every counterfeiter, every dope peddler now incarcerated in a Federal penitentiary not only lives better'-The writer of the Republican National Committee put these words in-he said with studied deliberation. . . ." Blushing to the roots of his white hair, Senator Dickinson made for the door...
...looks something like the Dymaxion designed by Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (TIME, June 12, 1933), but is smaller and squattier. It is almost perfectly streamlined, even the license plates and tail-lamp being recessed into the body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...