Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley Jurney beckoned to onetime Judge Ritter and his attorneys. It was all over. The two attorneys rose, started for the door. Mr. Ritter remained seated with arms folded, as if his disgrace glued him to his chair. Finally he half rose, and for a moment seemed about to collapse. Then, with an effort, he stood erect, marched out of the Senate Chamber with a firm step. Newshawks crowded around asking questions. With a look of anguish in his eyes he declared: "I have nothing to say. God, can't you see why I have nothing...
Chary of photographers, Admiral James's friends slipped into the Admiralty through a side door. They included...
...parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into...
Nearly four hours later a woman who lives in the mountains near Uniontown, Pa., and who has the only telephone in her neighborhood, saw a bruised and bloody girl in a torn, singed uniform stumbling up to her door, escorted by a neighbor. The girl gasped that she must use the telephone. She called a number, clutched the instrument for support, steadied her voice when she got an answer. 'Mr. Williams, this is Nellie Granger, hostess on Flight I. The ship crashed and started to burn. . . . Both Otto Ferguson and Lewis [the copilot] were killed. . . . Nine passengers were killed...
...leave with those," roared Lawyer Powers, his cigar still clenched in his teeth. As he lunged for the boxes of proxies, the rest closed in. From the yelling confusion of heads, chairs, fists, feet and brief cases, three figures finally emerged: Mr. Bennett safely through the door with his proxies ; Lawyer Powers slammed against a wall; Lawyer Carney dashing for a telephone to summon the police, crying: "That man [Powers] committed assault & battery upon me. I'll have him arrested." Lawyer Powers, regaining his composure, gruffed: "Ridiculous...