Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many did you get?" "I got six," said Elmer. "Whose signatures were they?" asked Senator Black. "Well, my mother, a boy friend, a fellow who lives next door-a mechanic- and I got three others." The committee, charmed with its witness, continued its questioning: "Did you tell the people what the bill was about?" "Yes, sir!" "How did you explain it?" "I told them if the bill was passed it would put the utilities in the hands of big men. I didn't want that. But Mr. Epstein told me-" "Who's Mr. Epstein?" "He has a store...
...criticized for not using his powers. With Deputies and Senators now on vacation, the Premier last week asked his coalition Cabinet to meet him in the historic Clock Room of the French Foreign Office one day at 9:30 a. m. Figuratively M. Laval then locked the door. Except for lunch and dinner, superbly provided by the famed chef of the Quai d'Orsay, for over 14 hours there was nothing but work in the Salle d'Horloge with its massive, slowly ticking clock. At ten minutes before midnight the weary Cabinet rose, having drafted no less than...
...shuddering with sadistic thrills at public executions, or slavering over the wax image of Mme Orlac which he keeps in his apartment. One of the best scenes in the picture is the maniacal matter-of-factness of Lorre's drunken housekeeper who, finding Mme Orlac at the front door, takes for granted that she is the wax image come to life, shoos her upstairs to the chamber where she is trapped by Lorre and, subsequently, rescued by the police and her vengeful husband. Even the music that bursts forth for the lovers' reunion has its chilling overtones...
...grown resigned to the ways and morals of the squalid district of the English seaport where she lived. She had met her husband. Dennis, when she jumped from an excursion steamer to save a child, had been saved in turn by him. Strict and unforgiving, she had closed the door on her son Desmond when he took a lovely but mysterious wife who was thought to have been a bad woman. She quarreled with her only daughter, who resented the unconcealed and unashamed favoritism that Mrs. Fury showed for Peter. Mrs. Fury went hungry and never complained, humiliated herself begging...
Thump! Thump! and Thump!?the King of Arms knocked on the door of Henry VII's Chapel, musty and magnificent...