Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sounds of gaiety and merriment came through the door. Sergeant Jurney knocked. Mr. Robinson opened the door, hastily popped out and shut the party in behind...
Sergeant Jurney looked suspiciously at the door...
...Sorry I can't ask you in for a drink," explained Mr. Robinson with embarrassment, "but I'm entertaining a dinner party." Then he bowed himself back into his room, shutting the door behind him. Male and female voices could be heard laughing inside...
Sergeant Jurney looked dubiously at his deputies, at the newshawks. "There's a whole crowd in there," he mused undecidedly. Less squeamish, the newshawks put their ears to the door, listened hopefully. Then the door opened and everybody gaped. Out slid thin, hollow-cheeked Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, followed by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., followed by Amon Carter, Democratic "angel," publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
...French Somaliland, next door to bristling Italian Eritrea, the French naval sloop Dumont d'Urville, mounting five and one-half inch guns, ominously arrived last week, anchored to command the French harbor of Djibouti, connected by rail with Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All week freight cars from Addis Ababa were jam-packed with goods shipped out by frightened foreign merchants in Ethiopia who closed their stores, hoped to keep their goods in storage on French soil until better times. French Premier Pierre Laval, realizing the extreme delicacy of French Somaliland's situation, appointed last week...