Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will shoot you!" cried a navy officer as four more assailants burst in through a back door. Covered by nine pistols, the Premier said: "Let us talk it over before you shoot...
Director Alfred E. Green has used specific properties-New York's Club Lido, the 5. S. Bremen. The famed tooth-pick-against-bedroom-door trick used by Kentucky detectives at Theodore Dreiser's expense (TIME, Nov. 23) is borrowed with a hairpin variation...
...last few years he has often looked at his prisoners and wondered whether he is running a penitentiary or a preparatory school. The notable absence of culture in the ranks of successful business men and the number of minors engaged in criminal occupations can both be laid at the door of educational failure...
...years from the mantel piece of Daughter Maud R. Ingersoll Probasco's New York apartment. He served in the Civil War with the 11th Illinois Cavalry. In a funeral oration he once said: "We know not whether the grave is the end of this life or the door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin 'Whither?' And again we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds this world. Over the desert of death...
...once grieved to learn that his good friend had been bitten on the lip by a pet dog. Promptly he entered the Kingsbury sanctum on all fours, barking and growling. Another time he set a trap in Mr. Kingsbury's office so that when the oilman opened the door 100 pigeons flew into his face. Hilarious was the scene when Mr. Kingsbury entered the bank one day asking, "What about some golf. Herb...