Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio, a Negro thief entered the living room of Mrs. A. H. Commins, picked up two pocketbooks from a table. ''I'll just take care of these," said the thief. "All right." said Mrs. Commins, continuing to read her book. The thief walked to the front door, fumbled with the knob. "You'll have to turn the latch," said Mrs. Commins. "Thank you," said the thief. When she finished reading Mrs. Commins discovered that she had not been talking to her Negro butler, had been robbed of $80 in cash...
...sombre black and silver vestments. Though it is a strict rule of Belgian court etiquet that women shall not appear at state funerals, neither etiquet nor prostration from grief could keep gentle Queen Elisabeth from her husband's funeral.† Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun of France. At the foot of the coffin Cardinal van Roey pronounced Absolution, and with muted horns the band of the First Grenadiers played the national anthem...
...Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish green...
...night one of them heard a dull boom from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...
That night the eight Theta Chis who had been away returned to find a policeman barring their door. Sickening as a blow from his nightstick was the news he had to tell. All over the campus telephones were ringing. Students hurried from house to house. Soon all Dartmouth knew that, flowing from the broken furnace pipe, carbon monoxide gas had seeped through the Theta Chi house without sound or smell, brought Death to all nine sleepers...