Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Stalin's office is translated this month by The Living Age from the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Excerpts: "Stalin's office . . . occupies an entire 'Stalin's half' of the [sixth and top] floor [of the Party Secretariat Building] and one door only connects it with other rooms. This door opens on the room of Stalin's private secretary. . . . There are no unexpected guests. At a prearranged time and without any waiting the visitor is ushered...
...Rodney, he a younger brother of the 8th Baron Rodney, she of Seattle. In the middle of the night Jackson, the McCormicks' chauffeur, heard his master and mistress begin to shout "Fire!" In their night clothes they walked safely out of "The Heronry's" front door...
...obscure: past a cut rate drugstore, a toy shop and a haberdashery to a grimy doorway labeled: NEW WORKERS SCHOOL; up a narrow steep staircase straight to the top floor; through the bare offices of New York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door to door ran a set of 21 heavy, richly-colored fresco panels, a present to Communism by a man generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest muralist-Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta...
...vacated quarters of Central Trust Co., part of Charles Gates Dawes's Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., now being liquidated. The main banking room, decorated with murals illustrating Chicago's history, was equipped with serving counters, tables, a long bar. The grilled iron door which once led to Banker Dawes's office now opens into a lounge...
...Elsa Kirpal, written a best-seller (The Outlaw Years), and begun to build with his own hands his own house near Brewster. N. Y. Tall, redhaired, slow moving, he likes to read dictionaries and trade journals, spends whole afternoons throwing an ice-pick at a target on a barn door...