Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has all her son's tact and skill in dealing with the Press. When ship-newshawks rapped on her stateroom door, she called out: "I'll have to ask you to wait for half an hour. My hair is not fixed and I must dress." Thirty minutes later reporters trooping into her cabin were greeted with: "Who are all these charming people...
...smoke, lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid rescued the baton carried by the Duke of Abercorn's late father at the coronation of King Edward...
...health has been failing fast and seemingly the Government feared popular indignation should he die imprisoned. Looking worn and broken, 65-year-old Socialist Seitz was spirited secretly to the Auersperg sanatorium. There two detectives were stationed at his bedside and two police men set to guard the door of his private ward. "I am a poor schoolteacher on a pension," wailed Dr. Seitz's wife, "and they tell me I must pay for these guards or my husband will be sent back to jail...
...door was hoisted into place on its lugs and screwed down tight with spanners and mauls. The supporting boom swung over the side, cable squeaked, the sphere ducked under. Cable was paid out at 50 ft. per minute. Log of the dive : 500 ft.: School of silvery squid. 900 ft.: Color of water turquoise black...
...underworldling. Day after Christmas Julian is still in a black mood when friends rake him over the coals. That night, getting drunk alone in his house, he realizes what a fool he has made of himself in three days. He goes out to the garage, shuts the door, starts the motor. But the story does...