Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lamson bungalow on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto. They found Lamson stripped to the waist. He had been burning rubbish in the backyard. Telling his callers to wait until he got a shirt on, Lamson vanished into the house. A few minutes later he opened the front door, cried: "My God, my wife has been murdered." Rushing in, the agent and client found the nude, dead body of Allene Thorpe Lam son sprawled over the rim of a blood-splattered bathtub. The back of her head was bashed in. In the burning rubbish outside was a discolored iron...
...Irvington, N. J., a bolt of lightning neatly split a bed on which lay William Gaylor, 19, and Jack Fitzsimmons, 6, burned a pair of bedroom slippers, took a closet door off its hinges, slipped into the bathroom and tore off all the fixtures, rambled around the kitchen and broke all the dishes, dropped into the basement, smashed the electric metre, grounded...
...distinguishing feature of the Phillips business is the fact that it buys tin plate, makes its own cans. About 85% of the Phillips cans are used in its 14 packing plants, the rest sold outside. Campbell's cans are made by Continental Can, which has a plant next door to the big soup works in Camden, N. J., rolls the cans on to the Campbell conveyer belts automatically...
Last week, having waded for six months through a sea of Government stenographers whose desks are shoved up to his living room door, doughty Republican Tinkham still refused to move, declared: "They can't resettle...
...annoyed to discover that Crusader Herbert ignores U. S. English, tacitly assumes that it is a provincial monstrosity. Of U. S. slang he says "it is one part 'natural growth' and nine parts a nervous disorder. It is St. Vitus's Talk." He opens a big door, then hastily slams it, when he admits: "The step from foul American slang to valuable English idiom is sometimes very short"-then changes the subject. He further weakens his case for Royalist English by attacking the divine right of dictionaries, even the Oxford (but he bows to H. W. Fowler...