Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hughes called, and Mr. Justice Brandeis. Finally when his life could be sustained only by constant oxygen, admittance was denied to every visitor but one. This week, as Mr. Justice Holmes's 94th year was drawing to an end, physicians announced that that Last Visitor was at his door...
...murderer Mother May was assured of reprieve. In Britain for pardon to follow reprieve in a murder case is rare indeed. Last week Mother May was taken home by limousine and police were assigned "to guard her from cranks." Leaning forward excitedly as the car swept up to her door, she waved to her 70-year-old husband. Speaking of her operation, Mother May said: "Afterward, when I get well, I hope to go away for a real holiday...
...Customers are photographed coming out of Jewish shops. Placards announcing 'Jews not wanted' are displayed in cafés and restaurants. 'Jewish students enter here at their own risk,' reads a notice at the door of the Technical School. Jews cannot attend the theatre, opera or motion pictures without risk of insult. Oldtime friends are afraid to visit or greet them in the street. Nowhere else are they so cut off from normal life or subjected to such economic boycott and social ostracism...
...Darling, wouldn't John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin. As he headed over the Channel in bumpy air, he opened the door again, looked back to see if his passengers were comfortable. The two girls were gone...
...mail" first, cashed the small money orders from people who thought he had not been rewarded enough. He suspected the firm of withholding his mail as it began to dwindle, as his name faded out of the newspapers. Last week Frank Grigoris began knocking at his own door, telling himself to come in, began rushing into the street and bumping into strangers...