Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laborites. Robert Menzies slowly rose to his feet. His voice trembled as he began to speak. If the Country Party had closed the door to coalition for reasons of high policy, he said, he could respect it, but it had been closed for reasons which were offensive, personal, paltry, irrelevant. The House cheered. But when Robert Menzies later went knocking for ministers, he found the Country Party door not only closed but bolted and barred. Even so, early this week he finally succeeded in forming his Cabinet...
...Tsingtao, North China's biggest and most beautiful port, reported a new Japanese version of the Open Door in China-open for Japanese to enter, for foreigners to get out. Non-Japanese ships, said the report, are now obliged to anchor far out in the harbor; are kept waiting, sometimes for 24 hours, for port papers; are charged exorbitant lighter rates; have to discharge their passengers under conditions which are always unpleasant, sometimes (on stormy days) dangerous. There is always a mysterious shortage of coolies when loading-time comes...
...fire first broke out in the bakery. Before firemen could chop down the door, it was licking up through the gleaming white superstructure. Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not yet unloaded; fireboats poured tons of water into her blazing bowels, rigged webs of cables to keep her upright at the pier. Toward morning, with her red-hot sides sending out great clouds of steam, the Paris crankily listed to port, snapped the cables like twine, heeled over on her side...
...Back Door to Heaven (Odessco Productions, Paramount release) is an awkward attempt to crash the back door of the cinema industry. It is notable as the first effort of a new producing company headed by Bernard Steele and Stanley Odium (son of Investment Truster Floyd Bostwick Odium, whose Atlas Corp. has a large stake in Radio-Keith-Orpheum and who reportedly put up part of the $350,000 it cost to make the picture in Astoria...
Gray, unaccented, often pointless, Back Door to Heaven shows the progress of dim-witted Frankie Rogers (Wallace Ford) from the wrong side of the tracks to the wrong side of the bars. Largely a one-man job, the picture owes its sincerity and its faults to husky, sentimental Director...