Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor Department Building was planned when Herbert Hoover was in the White House and the Cabinet was all of one sex. When Miss Perkins looked over her own office in the new building she found it satisfactory. Opening a door she stepped happily into an adjoining bathroom with full-length mirrors, frosted window panes, a shower stall with seven needle sprays and pastel-tinted tile. Then with consternation she noted that there was another door to her bathroom. She opened it and found it led into the future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski...
...well considered and well expressed, and our best wishes for their future as individuals. With a feeling of some astonishment and of some regret, akin to that of the graduating schoolboy who suddenly finds himself in a position to disobey his masters, we discover that we are shutting the door on their policies...
...found the dead body of John Telga, longtime porter at the Bankers' Club, bankbooks showing deposits of $23,500, a cheap bureau full of expensive linen, a parchment coat of arms. All the gas jets were open but no gas issued. Then someone noticed a note under the door: "Your gas has been shut...
...LaGuardia's counter proposal was an immediate 20% reduction as evidence of Mr. Carlisle's good faith. Caustic though it was, the Mayor's reply by no means closed the door to further palaver...
This unnerved Stenographer Sittell to the point of scuttling out a back door without making any statement. She expected to visit her German parents in Gangloff, then sail...