Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stabbed him in the heart. Pierce pulled the knife out of his heart, folded it and put it back in his pocket, handed the girl his wallet, said, "Will you pay the check?" With a roomful of patrons watching him in strict silence, Pierce took five steps toward the door, fell down dead. "That, gentlemen," Miss King told police, "is the way a gentleman dies...
Appearing at the door of his office, supporting an unusually unhappy patient, Dr. Hathaway learned that there were no more beds. He blanched, tottered, but bravely returned to his duty, game to the last...
...Wedding Night (Samuel Goldwyn). Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife (Helen Vinson) return to his inherited Connecticut farmhouse so that he can write a novel undistracted by their Bohemian friends. Their next door neighbors are a family of Polish tobacco farmers whose quaint ways appear to Tony ideal material for a book. When the Poles buy one of his fields, he lets his wife go back to town with the money, settles down to serious research on his subject...
...Chicago, Grocer John Baguilais forbade neighborhood urchins to enter his store on roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
...Cincinnati, Albert Malenfant met his maidservant's fiancé for the first time when the man came to the door with the announcement that the girl, Helen Milner, had fainted in his car. Employer and fiancé carried the girl upstairs to bed. The fiancé left "to get a doctor." Mrs. Malenfant bathed the girl's forehead, discovered a bullet hole behind Miss Milner's ear. The girl had been dead for an hour. The fiancé had vanished...