Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running crazily this way & that through the smoke, kicking tear gas cans out of the way, hurling bricks and stones at the defending troopers. The mob gathered for a charge and 13 troopers went down under the impact, their captain knocked senseless. The mob battered down the first iron door with a beam taken from a lumber yard. Somebody opened a second door from the inside...
...Houston in 1928 he threatened to beat up Rev. J. Frank Norris, a Protestant preacher acquitted of murder, who opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration he shot his six-gun through the door of an elevator in the Rice Hotel. Last year he was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon, now supervises Texas patronage distribution. He sends long night letters to President Roosevelt at least twice a week. Once in a while sleepy telegraph operators at Fort Worth are roused late...
...synthetic silk factory. When she died last November of peritonitis, appendicitis or poison (she was supposed to have tasted everything prepared for her husband several hours before he ate it), she arose from public anonymity in a magnificent Moscow funeral. Last week Correspondent Barnes stood at the door of a classroom and watched Son Vasya wave his hand anxiously at his motherly-looking, sixtyish grammar teacher for a chance to recite. Not until late in the lesson did she call on him. Then he answered correctly in a bashful voice, hastily sat down. Vasya is in the fifth grade (equivalent...
...right for you," and started to walk out. Catching sight of the departing guest, a trembling tutor rushed up, and explained to the President that he must take his coat and hat, and trot around outside the building to Professor Greenough's house. A few minutes later, the door to the Master's house at the other and of the dining hall, opened and the Presidential party marched in, quite according to Hoyle...
...word, to describe the effort of Erasmus and his contemporaries to place the "literae human-iores" beside the "literae divinae" which claimed a monopoly of medieval erudition. Rabelais, Montaigne and Babbitt are found together, all on the side of the angels: the famous sign over the door of the Abbey of Theleme has mislead those who forget that only the "well born, well instructed, conversing in honest company" were invited. Humanism is not hedonism, which is in fact a potential consequence of that naturalism which humanism challenges. It is not secularism, either. The Renaissance pioneers only demanded a hearing...