Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rained in this town for eleven months. . . . In every direction the fields go off to the horizon, brown and full of dust. . . . You cannot take a bath in this hotel. ... If you want a drink of water, you go down to the kitchen. The cook opens the door of the electric refrigerator and pours out three-quarters of a glassful of something that looks like water and tastes like iron filings...
Upstairs panic-stricken State functionaries tore about with flying coattails, locking the thin, white doors that were now the Cabinet's sole defense. Swinging rifle butts like battering rams, the invaders crashed down door after door, advancing slowly and methodically through the vast building and making up batches of hostages as they went. "This lot is to be shot first, if we are attacked. That lot next...
...convey to Austria that a Nazi Putsch headed by "King Anton" had succeeded. When a radio actor found a revolver and started shooting, a cool Nazi hurled a hand grenade, blew him to blazes. Meanwhile back at the Ballhaus ten pistol-brandishing Nazis had burst down the last white door and caught Chancellor Dollfuss at bay on the threshold of the historic Yellow Room in which met the Congress of Vienna...
...Peekskill, N. Y., for the first time in 20 years, John J. Morrissey left the house to which he retreated in 1914 to escape noise. His purpose: to complain to police against his next-door neighbor's radio...
Late in August 1924, Justice John Richard Caverly of Chicago heard the last arguments in the Loeb-Leopold murder case, retired to wrestle with the record and his conscience before deciding whether the boy-killers should live or die. To his door went two Chicago Tribune newshawks, a man and a woman. They were covering the trial, but this time they wanted no news. Hesitantly the man spoke...