Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of last week the busiest thoroughfare in Washington was a small private corridor leading from a White House side door to the President's office. In that office sat a man whom the Supreme Court had stunned to silence with its annihilation of NRA. Down that corridor marched huffy Hugh S. Johnson who for a twelvemonth was NRA personified; sickish Donald Richberg and sheepish Solicitor General Reed whose defense of NRA before the Supreme Court had proved so footling; William Green and John L. Lewis to whom NRA was a professional gift from heaven; dapper Averell Harriman...
...clock one morning last week, just before he was going out to milk his cows, John Bonifas, a chicken farmer of Issaquah, Wash., heard a knock on his door. He opened it and there stood a dishevelled child wrapped in a dirty white blanket...
Black-uniformed black-helmeted Schutzstaffel (Special Guards) ringed Berlin's Kroll Opera House last week while a battalion of grey Reichswehr troops stood as a guard of honor before the door. In public squares all over Berlin, all over Germany, other crowds stood gaping at the trumpet horns of loudspeakers. Inside the Opera House the brown-shirted Reichstag had been called to order by paunchy Hermann Wilhelm Göring. It had risen, once to honor the memory of Bavarian Minister of Education Hans Schem, killed in an airplane accident, once to do the same for the late Marshal...
...priest went home with Joseph Shipulo, took one step through the door, inhaled and pulled Joseph back out the door. When the police came, they found Mrs. Shipulo two weeks dead. When finally Joseph understood that his wife was not asleep, he went raving mad, was taken to a hospital psychopathic ward. In the mattress on which he had lain beside his putrefying wife, police found $1,620 cash, two Liberty bonds, a bankbook showing $350 deposits and a dozen mortgages...
...Yonkers, N. Y., John Carpenter Jr., II, found a perfect place to hide from his 6-year-old sister in a game of hide-&-seek. In a vacant apartment across the hall he had found an abandoned icebox, removed the shelves and climbed in, slamming the door behind him. On the outside, the strong snap-lock fell into place. John was surrounded on six sides by unbroken zinc. Police of five states searched a day for him. Then John Carpenter Sr. found the grimy mark of a boy's hand on the icebox door, his son's suffocated...