Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Packard forced its way through the crowd with the aid of some of the 450 special police. Out of the car got a Roman Catholic priest. He was soon lost until someone screeched "Here's Father Coughlin" and catapulted Detroit's famed radio demagog through a door. Old Uncle Henry followed in the swirl but onetime Senator Robert Owen, tall and feeble, became terrified. "Please get me out of this" cried...
...National Lottery winnings from the income tax and publishes winning numbers but not winning names, their secret was their own. Going to the Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires (1,000,000 francs = $64,600), most of them stayed anonymous...
...breakfast coffee in an Avignon bistro when the barman pushed him a copy of the morning paper. Ribiere's eye fell on the news that his ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping, prancing and slapping himself, he yelled. "Mama, wake up! Wake up! We're rich!" As the other winners could have warned...
Some 40 years ago a Manhattan youngster named Walter Merrill Hall used to run from his front yard to the Hamilton Grange Tennis Club next door and peep through the fence at his father playing there. At 13 he learned to play. At 15, Walter Merrill Hall quit school, went to work as a Wall Street runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within...
Early in 1931 Depression sniffed at the Grigsby-Grunow door. As a price for their aid the bankers insisted that shouting, swearing Mr. Grunow get out. He did. Last week Depression strolled boldly into the Grigsby-Grunow house. Protesting that it was perfectly solvent, Grigsby-Grunow was petitioned into receivership. Liabilities, petitioners claimed, were $5,200,000 exceeding current assets of $4,150,000 although total assets were...