Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs all of them in Hold Your Horses. He juggles a whopping hogshead which he catches on the soles of his feet from a steep runway. He directs Dave Chasen to drop down to the corner for some cigars, at the precise moment that Chasen disappears through a trap door. In his mayoral office is a statue which, when dusted, sneezes. He calls for his running pants, and a pair of trousers, propelled by an invisible dwarf, trots across the stage. He occasionally pauses to rattle off, in a manner as modest and conscientiously ingratiating as a hotel clerk...
...left his cubby-hole office just off the White House foyer one afternoon, gone home, been suddenly stricken with a heart attack. Declared President Roosevelt who had known him since the days of T. R.: "It was Ike Hoover who met me at the door when I came into the White House as my home. . . . His passing is a tremendous personal loss. . . . The nation, too, has lost a true and faithful public servant...
...White House he ran its social functions, stage-managed the ceremonious presentation of diplomatic credentials, arranged seating lists for dinners, kept a check on calling cards, directed Presidential receptions, herded the Cabinet about, told distinguished visitors, where to stand, what to say. As guardian of the front door, he knew whom to let in, whom to keep out. He managed the White House weddings of Alice Lee Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth, of Eleanor Randolph Wilson to William Gibbs McAdoo. President Wilson trusted him with the secrets of his romance with Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait, let him arrange their marriage. Tall...
...Milwaukee hotel, pointed a rusty revolver at its occupant, University of Wisconsin's sapient President Glenn Frank. He demanded the keys to Dr. Frank's baggage. Backing slowly away as the thief rummaged through his belongings, Dr. Frank got into his bathroom, slammed and bolted the door, shouted for help out the window. The thief fled, without booty...
...Shakespeare and theology. The scanty leisure of the students did not admit of a very high standard of gymnastics, and they seem to have abandoned those typical American college sports of baseball and football altogether. The President spoke of these games as "late innovations." One chief out-of-door employment seems to have been wood-cutting and felling...