Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plotting, intrigue and back-door diplomacy on the part of the American Embassy have thus far failed . . ." cabled Tom Pettey. "The intrigue of the embassy even spread to newspaper men. Mr. Welles only two days ago advised the correspondents that he would inform them of any important turn of affairs through one of his favored correspondents, who had been swapping information with...
...front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view...
...squealing on the hearthstone because the White Queen's (Louise Fazenda) pawn has climbed dangerously to a tabletop. Alice straightens out this difficulty and sets off to examine the other rooms of the looking-glass house. A curious wind whisks her down the stairs, through the front door, down the garden path. There she picks up the White Rabbit (Skeets Gallagher) on- his way to the" party. When she has followed the Rabbit down his hole, the first person Alice meets, swimming about in a puddle of the tears which she has wept before eating the cake which reduces...
...dressing room, twitching and writhing with a fractured skull, Horner whizzed up to Shore, whammed him on the chin, knocked him unconscious. It took seven stitches to put Shore's scalp together. Few minutes later a bespectacled spectator in an excited crowd around the dressing-room door was punched in the eye. Connie Smythe, Maple Leaf manager, was arrested for that...
...morning was so foggy that D. R. Niles, the 65-year-old bus driver, kept to the road. He had just put the bus's front wheels on the railroad tracks when Death loomed out of the fog. The children were screaming and scrambling for the door when the locomotive struck...