Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cocks of Mexico City were crowing one morning last week, priests had begun their early orisons, when a guttural little group of government officials appeared at the door of 66-year-old Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores and demanded his person. The prelate, who somewhat resembles the present Pope, knew what to expect. As the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate (appointed 1929) he was the head & front of his church in Mexico. The Pope's encyclical Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul'') of last fortnight, complaining about the Mexican Government's treatment of the church, had stirred...
...Scholars who wish to make productive scholarship their calling are advised that there is no place for them in this University." This is the sign which hangs over the door of American Graduate Schools, Mr. Wernaer writes. He says further: "Scholarship has been to us largely a by-product, a means of securing academic promotion, but not an end in itself. Yet, it is, we know, an end in itself, and to see this end realized is one of the chief functions of the university." It need hardly be said that it is the "creative, not merely dissective, form...
...revenge for a town zoning ordinance preventing her from renting her house to an oil company, Mrs. Daniel A. Warren hung red flannels in the front yard, painted the front steps red with green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of the front door bright blue, the door green, the upper story red, white, green and blue, striped and smeared. She hung two big dummies against the . wall, painted a donkey, an elephant, seven jackasses, a sign "Speak gently, shush, KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large...
Last week New York State's Board of Medical Examiners, one of the strictest in the land, shut New York's door tighter than ever. Only schools whose graduates have any chance to be examined in New York are the governmental medical schools of Austria, Germany, Holland, Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, England, Ireland and Scotland...
From Chicago the Illinois Humane Society dispatched an indignant note to Mayor Langum, threatening prosecution. One night last week Mayor Langum quietly made his way to the pumphouse, unlocked the door. His flashlight glittered on a pair of scissors. The Mayor snipped. Next day St. Charles's garter snake was fed milk in a corner of the pumphouse, later exhibited in a jar in the window of a butcher shop. On the jar was a sign: O LORD. PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP MY NOSE OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS...