Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...time. Louisiana's Long, spying the new President, started to sweep in upon him blatantly, changed his mind at the threshold, tiptoed away. Mr. Roosevelt was restless to get going. Ten minutes before noon he moved down the corridor toward the Senate, only to be stopped at the door, told that it was not yet time for his entrance. "All right, we'll go back and wait some more," he laughed...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...
...moon. Back in Hope Baptist Church, Pastor Jones is conducting a six-day camp meeting to bring his straying lamb back to the fold. Jim sees the error of his ways, returns to Ella. The vicious Sulamai is killed by a bolt of lightning at the church door...
...John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, of influenza in London; Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton, of two broken fingers caught in an automobile door in Los Angeles; Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, of "rundown condition" in Washington, D. C.; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Panama, of stomach trouble in Washington, D. C.; Herbert Nathan Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan drygoods); after a heart attack in Manhattan...