Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salesman Christian was a Democrat. He had been one of the reading clerks at the Baltimore convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson in 1912. But he lived next door to Warren Harding. In fact one summer day in 1891, as a boy in his teens, he had been stationed at the door of the next house to admit guests as they arrived for the wedding of Warren Harding and Florence Kling. So to Washington in 1915 went Democrat Christian as Republican Senator Harding's secretary...
...cold white fog that rose from the Rhine all sounds seemed magnified. Official witnesses and a handful of newshawks turned up their coat collars and shivered in the Cologne prison yard. Down below the Rhine steamers hooted mournfully. A door clanked. Out marched brownshirts, prison guards and the official executioner -a Cologne butcher on other days. Hoarfrost formed on the nap of his official top hat, on the shoulders of his official tailcoat. The door banged again. Out marched the prisoners, six of them with necks shaved and prison blouses open at the throat. One by one they knelt...
...daughter, argue drunkenly with him. When they propose to take him forcibly to apologize to the college president, he orders them out profanely. One lassoes him. The connotations of the rope and the song. "Hang him to a sour apple tree," suggest a lynching, get them half out the door with their man when the professor's wife appears in the doorway. In shuffling shame they drop their ropes, go mumbling away. When the authors finish with their hero, he is waiting to be hanged for an anti-war murder while the U. S. joins a new European conflict...
Southwestern roads have been calling for l.c.l. freight at the shipper's door, delivering it at the consignee's door for two years. Store-door service has been widely used in New England and the South, is standard service in Britain and eastern Canada...
...October Pennsylvania posted with the I. C. C. store-door tariffs for its entire system. So did Erie and Grand Trunk. Thus an entirely new factor was suddenly introduced into the highly-competitive trunk line territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth...