Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting facts about their private arrangements. Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely complete...
Included in the collection is the only Garrick farthing in existence, coined in 1772, and cameos and pictures of Edward Booth and George Frederick Cooke. The Theatre Collection is also exhibiting an old key to the stage door of the Boston Theatre and snuff boxes and fans of famous actors...
...night of February 14 Henry Ewald went to a small, unpainted wooden house in Mobile's red-light district. A few minutes later the door burst open, a flash bulb glared and Crusader Ewald was photographed in bed with a man and a woman. Before he was blackjacked, tough Henry Ewald knocked three of the intruders sprawling and threw a fourth out of the window. He staggered home, called his publisher, Ralph Bradford Chandler, told him he had been framed...
...patient and, when he was through, took a proper precaution. He did not put the infected scalpel with the sterilized instruments in his bag. He wrapped it in a piece of paper and put it in his pocket. Then careful Dr. McCreedy went home and, opening his front door, looked down into the laughing face of his 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene. He swung her up and clasped her in his arms. That was a fatal move. The infected scalpel in his pocket pierced the child's abdomen. In spite of immediate attention, two days later Dr. McCreedy...
...good Jew travel in a commercial airplane on Saturday? Does he commit a sin if, on the Sabbath, he opens the door of an electric refrigerator in which a light automatically switches on? (According to the Law of Moses, no Jew may make a fire on the Sabbath. Good Jewish families get their ovens warm before the Sabbath begins and, because electricity is considered as fire, turn on whatever lights will be needed next...