Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion in the least. The frock-coated presiding officer, Monsieur le President Fernand Bouisson, refused to recognize him. When Felix made a dash for the tribune with a briefcase in his hand, President Bouisson, who had adjourned the Chamber for the day, scurried for the door, calling back over his shoulder, "You are out of order, the session stands adjourned...
...Soviet citizens in Manchukuo were urged to catch the next trains to Russia by Soviet consular officials who handed out railway tickets free to Reds who lacked money. On further orders from Moscow the Soviet Consulate General at Mukden was abolished, and the Consul General walked out, slamming the door. Since there is no Soviet Ambassador accredited to the Empire...
...spare the time from such other headaches as Ethiopia and Nazis, something should be done to help China by maintaining "the open door." China has received the heaviest solar-plexus wallop to her economy not from Japan but from the Pittman "Silver Bloc" in Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman...
...President invite a serious political rival to the White House. Nevertheless, three days after Candidate Borah's announcement, Franklin Roosevelt had the Senator in to share his lunch on the Presidential desk. On arrival, Mr. Borah gladly posed for photographers with his hand upon the White House door knob. On departure, he was asked whether he had discussed the campaign with the President...
...placed her upon a bed. But soon as Father Theophilus began the long series of prayers and commands to the devils to depart, "with lightning speed the possessed dislodged herself from the bed and the hands of protectors, and her body, carried through the air, landed high above the door of the room and clung to the wall with catlike grips." It was necessary to pull her down by force...