Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy years, or jubilees, are usually held every 25 years. The last was in 1925. The Pope opens a walled-up door of St. Peter's at the beginning, closes it at the end. The other three Roman Basilicas are opened by Cardinals. Throughout the year, special services are held in all Roman Catholic churches, with special spiritual favors to those who attend...
...furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse in her arm lying on the dirty sheet is one of the stages of a mystery. Look once more and you can see how beautiful she is. Poor woman...
...door of the Bullion Room its foreman scrutinized the order, then beckoned to his helpers, strapping hairy-chested gnomes in leather aprons who had rolled up their sleeves for action. Striding into the spacious vault they advanced upon a mass of gold roughly eight times as great as the order called for. The bars, neither bright nor corroded, lay in faintly gleaming piles on low wooden trucks with small, rubber-tired wheels. To each truck slated for moving was attached one of the white tags, reading "Federal Reserve Bank...
Replied M. Germain-Martin as he struggled into his double-breasted greatcoat, clapped on his derby hat and made for the door, "Enter it on the books as 'deferred, pending the formation of a new govern-ment...
...months ago William Esty, 37, left the advertising agency of J. (for James) Walter Thompson Co. to start in business for himself. He employed a staff of experts and had "William Esty & Co. Inc." painted on his office door. Then he went out to solicit business, turning down small accounts, gunning for big ones...