Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pantry-and there in a hot corridor stood Mookini with his summons. Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck blew the ail-ashore bugle. Mookini got off; Mrs Massie stayed...
...went into the car to "untangle" the load. Those starting the cattle into the loading chute did not give Pickett time to get out and back on the Runways or "prodding boards" but sent an infuriated beast down the chute just as Pickett started up out of the car door. The ancient cry, "The Lady or the Tiger," became "Pickett or the Bull." Pickett grabbed the beast by the horns, crouched, finally knelt in an effort to throw it. Failing, in desperation, he sank his teeth into the animal's nose, subdued it-which is not strange when...
Howard Edwards was jolted to the hospital in an ambulance. There attendants kept him awake while Dr. Earl Hubert Snavely examined him. Dr. Snavely whispered some words to the attendants and they led Howard Edwards down a corridor toward a room. At the door of the room they turned him around, led him back. Howard Edwards began to protest. "I gotta sleep," said...
Sympathy Appeal. Many a U. S. housewife knows well the student door-to-door salesman with his plea: "Just two more and I get the scholarship." Last week 27 colleges, through the Eastern College Personnel Officers' Association, denounced this "sympathy appeal" as "definitely harmful to the students' moral sense." The Association, whose members get summer jobs for students, will hereafter stipulate against "sympathy appeal" in its contracts...
...behind which glory shines, Authoress Hall recounts how Christophe goes out one night with a patrol; how he wanders from the others, possessed with his vision; how, holding his silver rood before him, he walks up to an enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed, The Well of Loneliness...