Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked...
...evening, for instance, as Anna was sitting by her father's bed, she heard dance music floating over from the house next door. She longed to join the party, but sternly repressed the wish. Afterward, whenever she heard the strong rhythm of dance music, she began to cough, almost as though she were beating time. Most astounding part of the case, said Dr. Breuer, was this: as soon as Anna understood the origin and nature of her symptoms, they disappeared...
...into the cafeteria (lunch 18? to 22?) with his gold watch chain gleaming across his comfortable paunch. They like their 36-hour, five-day week, which they have had for six years. They like the immemorial company custom by which an officer of the firm stands at the front door of the plant to say good morning to them individually each day and to wave to them when they go home...
...When the King and Queen were the Duke and Duchess of York, they lived next door to me in London. . . . The children's favorite playmate was their Uncle, the Prince of Wales. . . . Queen Elizabeth told me their uncle taught them American slang. . . . And I'll never forget the day the children came to lunch, hardly able to speak because their uncle had given them their first chewing...
...Manhattan, Miss Frances Thorpe parked her car at the door of her apartment building, told the doorman, "I'll be right down," went up to her tenth-floor apartment. Few minutes later she plunged to her death in the courtyard...