Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jennies or some one like that. The two of them wanted to carry out a potted palm: they said they had an empty corner in their room it would just fill up nicely. Just as soon as I got them quieted, there was a lot of noise at the door, and a feller kept trying to force his way in. Said he was a Yaadcop and that we must turn down the radio. Somehow the boys at these dances seem to think they can talk them selves out of anything; but who ever heard of a Yaadcep. I think...
...Christmas Secretary of the Treasury Mills was presented with an etching of the Treasury Building. At the door stood his official automobile. Delighted, Secretary Mills last week confided to friends: "There's only one thing that would please me more. That would be an etching of the White House with my Presidential car at the entrance...
Were this threat made good, the seven Laborite Deputies would swing their balance of power against the de Valera Government and oust it when the Dail met. As Dublin clocks struck midnight the Cabinet hastily conferred. Reporters bunched respectfully a few paces from the locked door. At 12:45 a. m. it opened, the President announced dissolution, cried in ringing tones: "I have no doubt that my Government possesses the confidence of the country! We shall win the election and our victory will automatically abolish the Oath of Allegiance" (sworn by Free State Deputies & Senators to King George...
...train to return to Washington and the last 59 days of his term in the White House. ¶ With the President absent, the White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor hall leading to the Lincoln Study. Also under consideration was the construction of a small warm-water swimming pool in the White House basement, similar to the one Mr. Roosevelt...
...different forward. A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water. Two cooks were working in the crew's galley when the wave struck. It stove in the door, ripped open a steel bulkhead, and as the cooks crouched by the wall drove the stove and two half-ton boilers straight through the rear bulkhead. Seaman H. J. Johnston of Portsmouth was in the alleyway. Fifteen minutes later when the water had ebbed enough for an officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall...