Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like bird-dogs on point, newshawks and lobbyists clustered around a saloon-like swinging door in the U. S. Capitol one sticky morning last week. Behind that door sat bald-domed "Little Alva" Adams and the Senate deficiency appropriations subcommittee. Through it filed Government chiefs, great and small, to make their last pleas for money...
...denounce that treaty, giving six months' notice as provided in its articles. After the six months, an embargo could be voted, based on Japan's violations of the Nine-Power treaty of 1922 which guaranteed China's territorial and administrative integrity (and by inference, the Open Door). After a talk with the President last week, Secretary Hull asked Senator Pittman to put the Vandenberg resolution through the Senate, where sentiment for it was hot. Mr. Pittman deplored giving a Republican such a good break so Secretary Hull made the denunciation off the State Department...
...classroom English is a kind of dead language, derived chiefly from British literary traditions. Outside the classroom door students have lapsed naturally into their native American, which has a vocabulary as broad as the country, as exact and complex as U. S. technology, from which it draws many terms. To close the breach between classroom English and spoken American, two works had appeared last week in time for inclusion among next year's textbooks...
...Heifetz, Heifetz plays Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso one night at Carnegie Hall. In the audience is a slum boy (Gene Reynolds), who found a ticket in the lobby, failed to sell it to anyone at the door. Heifetz' fiddle stirs in this embryonic cutpurse the will to resume his own studies on the violin. When the charitable music school which takes him in finds itself in an understandable financial jam, Heifetz is touched for a $5 bill, promises to attend the school's concert if he can. Although making him keep this amiable...
...white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded his wealth, his largesse and his talent with open admiration; celebrities from far and near beat a path to his door...