Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. With high hopes of getting "inside dope" from an evening's interview, the editors marched in. The President greeted them cordially, talked to them at length, hardly allowed them to get a question in edgewise. Coming out by the same door wherein they went, one editor summarized their off-the-record interview in an off-the-record description: "That's what I call a one-man filibuster to silence the American Press...
...studying improvements in the U. S. parliamentary system, he learned French in order to verify a translation from de Tocqueville. So that his constituents cannot interrupt his studies, he keeps his home address in Washington to himself, has a secret office in the old House Office Building with a door that cannot be opened from the outside...
...lull between luncheon and cocktails, Henri Charpentier, famed chef who says he invented Crepes Suzette, was musing in the spotless kitchens of his Rockefeller Center Cafe when a New York City marshal and six deputies scuffled through his door. With no respect at all for Henri or his little French pancakes, they shooed out his patrons, scattered his clamoring staff of 77, packed up his food and drink, evicted Henri himself in apron and chef...
...Leavenworth Case, in 1878, nine years before Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. A bestseller, it ran to 150,000 copies, is still in demand. Author Green's favorite plot ingredients: the murderer is the first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green's stanch belief in its fallibility. In some 20 of her 36 books, the hero was a master mind named Ebenezer Gryce. Called the world's foremost detective story...
...Crane, Mo., a thief broke into the jail, robbed a prisoner of $17, went out leaving the jail door open. Out into the street the prisoner ran, shouting for a policeman...