Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a message in his hand a trustee left the board room on the fifth floor of Northwestern's marble headquarters in Milwaukee. Instead of going out to a telegraph office he walked down a single flight of broad stairs, down a long corridor and knocked at a door marked "Michael J. Cleary, Vice President." Inside he delivered his message...
...never became its president. In Catskill, N. Y., in the 1840's lived a maker of invalid chairs who called himself General John C. Johnston. Soon after Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York was organized he got a job with it, placed his chair near the office door, never let a prospect by. In 1857 he gathered together the 36 trustees required to start a life insurance company in Wisconsin. By the time he had collected the $200,000 needed to begin operations the trustees had decided they could do better without him. They gave...
...days ago. They all sat around politely, making conversation with the noted ease of Princetonians, until luncheon was announced, whereupon they all trooped hungrily to the table. There they sat and waited quite a while, still politely. The hostess chatted, with occasional back glances at the kitchen door, and the young men chatted. The hostess tinkled a bell. Nothing happened. She finally excused herself and went into the kitchen. She came back in a couple of minutes, twinkling a little around the edges...
...office door before you open...
...know that O. O. Mclntyre's first names are Oscar Odd? . . And that Ernest Hemingway's forthcoming book is called Death in the Afternoon? . . . And that over the stage door of any theatre owned or leased by Earl Carroll, it says in large letters: Through These Portals Pass the Most Beautiful Girls in the World...