Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid storms of laughter signs were hung on the Palace door reading "Vacant" and "For Rent." Thousands of mobsters, unable to crowd indoors, tore up palm fronds in the Palace gardens, marched off waving them in triumph. Some stopped at the U. S. Embassy to cheer Ambassador Welles who promised "continued mediation " declared that "Cubans are solving their own problems," begged for "control and calm...
...Barbour and four patients. In an adjoining office a typist named Helen Bosland "felt something snap" in her head. Afterwards she complained of severe headaches. One day last week she died, of sinus trouble and heart dilation. Week ago Chiropractor William Cooper was awakened by a baby crying next door, got up and turned on the lights of the bathroom in the rear of his house. He heard someone scurry down the driveway to his garage. Next morning he knew better than to investigate when he found the hood of his automobile open, wires dangling near the spark plugs. Detectives...
...Lehar's nostalgic score.* Most of last week's socialite audience came in period costume, the women in Floradora dresses, the men in early 20th Century costume. To prepare their setting for a fancy dress ball they had taken over Central City's Teller House, next door to the Opera House, restored its grandeur of 1873 when President Grant stepped into it on silver paving slabs. The presidential suite was last week a museum, complete with President Grant's huge mahogany bed. The ballroom was readied for a fancy dress ball after the play...
...opinion of many an Englishman when he uprose in Parliament to berate the prison governor. General Spears declared that Thomas Parker had unquestionably suffered from claustrophobia, the ear of confined places. Claustrophobia is a fact. Author James Branch Cabell says he cannot write unless e sits facing an open door. Many another person can testify that human beings do eel anything from a mild uneasiness to a frantic, sickening urge to escape when cooped up in a room, train, subway, elevator, cave, tunnel. Stirred by the Parker case, Britishers testified in letters to the London Times. Wrote Editor...
...Newark this spring John Kochorowsky kept telling his neighbors what a fine garden of onions and kohlrabi he was going to have. But something went wrong. Nothing came up. John Kochorowsky's garden became a great neighborhood joke. Meantime the garden next door flourished beautifully, became as famed for fertility as John Kochorowsky's was for sterility. One day last week John Kochorowsky gazed over the fence brooding long and darkly. Then he went down into his cellar, hanged himself...