Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While passengers settled themselves in its three articulated compartments. Zephyr picked up speed. For a while she did not venture over 75 m. p. h. At the last minute a defective armature bearing had had to be replaced, by airplane, from Omaha. Then somebody inadvertently slammed a door on a wire leading to the air condenser, which was repaired while the train coasted down a 20 mi. incline. These vexations overcome, Zephyr began to show her heels-80, 90, 100, 110, 112.5 m.p.h. In the rear solarium some coffee spilled as the train rocketed around curves...
California's Open Door (Cont...
...know that the great Blight isn't over yet but it does seem as though the University could afford to provide some keys to University Hall for the minor officials such as the Dean of the College. Last night we saw Dean Hanford trying the door by his office and finding it locked, try all the rest of the doors in turn. Finally giving it up as a hopeless job, he turned forlornly away...
...American history and after dinner they adjourned to the upper common room to revel in some choice tid-bits of knowledge to top off the season. On their way upstairs one of the members, supposedly a stranger to the architectural beauties of Adams House paused before the Tudor door that leads into the Roman court and smiled as he looked at the Moorish dome over the stair well. "It looks like a boudoir," he said...
Only eight hundred of the asked to the $50,000 Stanhope held in their home so it will intimate touch. Crowds fill the streets, door-checkers and bouncers abound for the purpose of keeping it exclusive; orchids and orchestras line the balcony; and the debutante and her parents, arrayed by Mr. Patou, greet some dismal but socially presentable friends. Beneath all this gay exterior a tragedy is taking place. The young musician, not realizing what he has done to the debutante, leaves her to marry the socialite, Jimmy Weaver, the third. Quite a noble conception...