Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal. He would cover the white spots on the fire box. with an eye on the water gauge, then he would come back to the bench and talk...
...Vagabond climbed the last steps to his tower room. He was tired. He feared that he had strained something dedicating things. All he wanted to do now was to sleep. He opened the door and saw a black bottle standing on his early eliot gate-legged table. He approached the bottle. Maybe it was something to drink. Maybe it was Absorbine Junior. There was nothing at all about "After every meal. Two tablespoons for adults." so the Vagabond thought it could do him no harm. He drank...
...paragraph on Democratic extravagance, pinned them together. Likewise joined were paragraphs on New Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study door, told the President it was nearly train time. Into a big envelop the loose paragraphs remaining on the table were swept. Out of the study and out of the White House without a backward glance marched the President to start for Palo Alto on his first trip home in four...
...Ionia, Mich., Robert Patterson, sentenced to eight months in the Detroit House of Correction for serving liquor in his restaurant, left a sign on the front door, ''Gone to Winter Quarters...
...crowd on a windy street jams itself around a little shop-door above which a loudspeaker blats out its staccato, excited sentences. A roaring mob in a smoky arena stands up on its feet howling again and again. The grizzly farmer puffs faster on his pipe, his wife's knitting becomes jerky and distracted as they loan nearer their radio. A group of elderly gentlemen silently draw up their leather chairs...