Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jackson, called the fire department, took full charge of all rescue work, and was the first to discover that the Duke de La Tremoille was still in the burning house. The only reference to Mrs. McCormick and myself states that ''we walked safely out of the front door...
...Tremoille's room through the window. Long previously by shouting and throwing stones at the window I had sought to rouse the Duke if he were there. Behind the window curtains Jackson found little smoke, no fire. The room was empty, the lights lit and the door to the corridor closed. The Duke had unfortunately left his room without attempting to escape by the window, and tried instead to traverse the suffocating fumes of the corridor. Here he died, having missed the right direction in seeking the staircase...
...called off. Danbury bakers began charging 25? a loaf for bread. There was no milk in New Haven for two days. A Wilton mother bore her baby in front of an open fireplace and by candle-light after a doctor had dug through a 18-ft. drift to her door. Six funerals were postponed in Bridgeport, where banks and stores closed...
...Kluxes. I was staying at a colored hotel when word comes to me that de Ku Kluxes wuz killin' all de nigguhs, some by just plain killin', some by drownin' and some by burnin'. Den that night, I found a note under my door. It said, 'Green, when we git back here we don't want to find you here,' and, Cap'n, I'm telling you dey sho' didn' find...
...Censorship has created a situation where you can only hint that a man is keeping a woman. You can't show him unlocking the door of her house, but you can show him in her bedroom...