Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Welfare Board a 40% increase in relief allowances, continuation of CWA work, an end to the requirement that former CWA workers prove their need in order to get relief. When the Welfare Board did not admit a delegation of the protesters within five minutes, the crowd broke down the door of the Mayor's reception room where the Board was meeting. The Board members scampered out through other exits. It was just an incident, little more striking than what had occurred in other cities...
...composing room of the Boston Transcript most of last week there was no scroogy handwriting to labor over, no fierce-eyed little man popping in at the door with sharp invectives. The little man was missed at the Friday afternoon Symphony where for years he had sat in the front row of the balcony, the seat beside him vacant. That night Henry Taylor Parker ("H. T. P.") died of pneumonia. He was 66. For 29 years he had been Boston's oracle on theatre and music...
Widow Kahn and the banker's second son, Musician Roger Wolfe Kahn, were waiting at the door. Mrs. Kahn wept so bitterly when she saw the coffin that she could not bring herself to announce the funeral arrangements. For three days the body lay in the hushed house of many rooms. Through the gloomy light of Manhattan afternoons gleamed the soft faces and figures of the dead man's favorite Botticellis and Rembrandts. On the fourth day the body was taken to the Kahn estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. where for 14 summers Otto Kahn...
...teacher's pencil tapped. Like a colony of frightened prairie dogs, 40 or 50 moppets bobbed under their desks, opened big flat geography books over their heads. Teacher marched to the door, counted up to 40. Then "earthquake drill" was over...
...Commission was restoration of the ancient "Pittsburgh plus'' method of price quotation. Banned by the Commission in 1924, this ingenious device forces a steelmaker to add to his delivered price freight charges from Pittsburgh or some other basing point, even if both buyer & seller are next door neighbors...