Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hall. In the dark she heard the pounding of running feet on the gravel again. The Admiral was still breathing when she reached him, but he died before a doctor could be summoned. By his body lay a card: RECRUITER FOR THE BRITISH. THIS IS A WARNING! By the door was a crumpled British recruiting poster and another card. It read...
...Washington's Adams Building stenographers of the Democratic National Committee were annoyed by pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with...
...Christmas 1888 at Arles in Southern France a young painter with a hooked nose called at the house of his best friend. Police and neighbors, all shouting excitedly, stood before the yellow door. Up rushed the red-faced chief of police...
Colonial society on that Pacific island was outraged by Artist Gauguin's habit of pasting obscene postcards on his bedroom door, of insisting on public recognition of his native mistresses. In constant trouble with French officials and the police, he moved finally to the Marquesas Islands, built and worshipped a clay idol of his own designing, died, half-blind...
...contemporaries in the service, Longstreet served in the Mexican War. By the time the Civil War started he had settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact of ambition and stubbornness. The first summer's campaign showed that he was a first-rate defensive fighter but unaggressive and slow on the attack...