Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Removal of the puddle of blood also served to let them see the wounded heart and to close its gap with five swift stitches. They then stitched the door of his chest shut...
...Prisoner of Shark Island (Twentieth Century-Fox). Suggested to Producer Darryl Zanuck by a story in TIME (Feb. 4, 1935), this picture investigates the sad case of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd. On April 15, 1865, two horsemen galloped up to Dr. Mudd's door in Charles County, Md. and asked for help. One had a broken leg; Dr. Mudd set it. Later that day the horsemen galloped away. The injured one was John Wilkes Booth. For his services, Dr. Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other...
...makes monthly trips to New York. The walls of his office are covered with family portraits and photostats of certified checks (largest, $1,300,000 from New York Auction Co. in 1929). On the dashboard of his Lincoln is a radio remote-control gadget which opens & closes his garage door and turns the lights in the garage on & off. None of the brothers smoke or drink. Each takes only $5,000 a year out of the business as salary...
...Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern Japanese naval history gave Togo Heihachiro a hero's part. Not by polishing up the handle of the big front door but by hard work, taciturn zeal and plenty of fighting skill did Togo become Admiral of the Son of Heaven's navy. When he first entered the Japanese Navy there was none, of any account. Togo was born just five years before Commodore Perry sailed into Yedo...
...test of skill is provided, too, in navigating the bus around the loop. At the very start, a narrow door presents no mean obstacle, and is immediately followed by a difficult curve which exacts close concentration to keep the trolleys on their cables. Then comes the straightaway in which the maximum speed of 88 m.p.h. can almost be reached before the brakes must be applied...