Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
Said Jonker next day: "I entrust everything of value to my wife. That night we bound the diamond in a cloth and tied it around my wife's neck. I saw her to bed after carefully locking and barring all the windows and doors except the front door. There my two sons, myself and two friends kept guard with loaded revolvers until dawn. Then I handed the diamond for safekeeping to the manager of the Premier Diamond Mine." Hastily last week Prospector Jonker sold his precious find to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, board chairman of South Africa's Diamond...
...wish to seem hypocritical in this matter. The News, like the other papers, distributes some of its papers through children. Two years ago, we used to sell 25,000 copies a day to youngsters at the circulation department door at wholesale rates. . . . We've cut it down since the National Child Labor Committee kicked about it and the figure is now about 2,000 a day. We wish it were...
...little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string of pearls from the Orchestra Association. Backstage Conductor Molinari snatched up his hat and overcoat, started for the door muttering: "It's an insult to the orchestra, the most confounded impertinence I ever heard of." It took great diplomacy to make him come back, finish the concert...
Authoress Mary Roberts Rinehart has written too many sensible murder stories for her own good. When in The State versus Elinor Norton she tries to show a lovely woman stooping to folly and finding too late that men betray, ghosts of The After House, The Door and The Album rise up to prevent...