Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lane with a Secret Service man at the wheel drove a little touring car bearing a 1935 Georgia license plate whose sole symbol was "R." Behind it came more Secret Servants in a big Pierce-Arrow bearing a District of Columbia license and another plate, emblazoned "USSS." From the door of the Little White House, President Roosevelt emerged. His bodyguard helped tuck him into the driver's seat of the Plymouth and off he tootled with the big car following, down Oak Road to Georgia Hall, main building of the Foundation, to circle around it to Atlanta Highway...
...sale of tickets, withheld the actual number already sold but indicated the couple tickets were being consumed far more rapidly than the stags. The tickets, priced at $1.25 a couple and $1.00 a stag, are still on sale on the Union, or they may be procured at the door. A complete canvass of the Freshman dormitories netted over 80 couple tickets...
Tickets will be obtainable at the door at $1.25 for stage and $1.50 for couples...
...process is really quite simple, though it has the record of ninetynine percent efficiency. An old brick vault, in the basement of the Fogg Museum, has been painted with white lead on the inside. The only outlet is a thick steel door. Once the objects are locked up inside, gas from a cylinder is forced into the chamber by a powerful pump. The gas, which is allowed to circulate for at least a whole day, has the ability to penetrate almost any thickness of cloth or fibre, even reaching the innermost grains of a hundred pound bag of wheat with...
...Dear Joe: Someone stole the door off your house. The cow has been poisoned and the plaster in two rooms upstairs has fallen down. A man came and said you promised him he could have 12 quarts of peaches. I gave them to him. Did you promise him? Some people are living in your other house and won't pay rent and won't get out. Someone stole the top off the stove and broke two windows. Your cross-cut saw is gone and so is that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell...