Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawks scurried for the door. Telegraph keys began to click out news that jostled President Roosevelt's Green Bay speech for No. 1 Press position. Trading in silver futures was promptly suspended on Manhattan's Commodities Exchange. With the Government as prospective owner of all silver at a fixed price, silver brokers were out of a job. The news flashed to Wall Street, and speculators, thinking of inflation, began to sell U. S. bonds until the Government hastily came to their rescue with bids higher than the prices at which they were for sale. The news flashed to London...
...course we Westerners have become more or less tamed with the advance of civilization, and we all check our six-guns at the door with the hat girl when we go into a public place, and we have the Indians pretty well in hand now? but we do not like this condition to be generally known back there because it might spoil our tourist trade. However I will have to apologize for the crude tactics of our lumbermen. They have not even advanced to the Stone Age in their methods of warfare. For instance, one rarely sees anything but fists...
...bring Negro Wilbur Stewart back from an Easton hospital. Hearing that a hearse had gone for him, the sick man's family arranged a funeral. The hearse drove up and out stepped Stewart, clad in a white hospital gown. Negroes dived out a second-story window, through a screen door. By dusk only a handful of the mourners had ventured back...
...brighter future than tending bar, and his schoolmasters wanted him to try for a scholarship at Oxford. When Publican Florey put his foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love with Undine, a visiting cousin from the U. S. When he let himself be seduced by the luscious secretary it cost him both...
...Paris correspondents Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 80-year-old mother of the President, was chatting of her son. Newshawk: "Did you ever have to spank him?'' Mrs. Roosevelt: ''No, I never did. But I did lock him in the closet once, and I thought he would kick the door down, he was so furious...