Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outskirts of Honolulu. He flagged it. It whizzed by. He chased it in his police car two miles, five miles, ten miles, firing random shots at the tires. Finally in a burst of speed he edged in front of it, forced it to nose into an embankment. Opening its door he found a grey-haired, middle-aged woman at the wheel, a trim, nice-looking young man beside her. In the back seat sat another young man and, beside him, a mummy-like thing roped up in a sheet. Officer Harbottle ripped open the sheet, was horrified to discover that...
...allowed to bleed to death. His corpse was undressed and wrapped in bed sheets from which all laundry marks had been clipped. To support their theory the police announced that they had found Kahahawai's brown cap in the Massie home, a bloody towel in a closet, an unhinged door,.a bathroom freshly mopped, a bed stripped of sheets and a coil of new white rope such as was around the body. On Sailor Jones was found a .32-calibre revolver clip like the one used in the killing, with one cartridge missing...
...Franz Schill. The Court was aghast. Respected General Schill but recently retired from the gendarmerie after 35 years of faithful service. His son is a lieutenant in the army. Nevertheless the Court ordered him arrested, held. Last week he sat in a cell, his head bowed in shame. The door rattled open; two of his former officers entered, stood stiffly. General Schill rose to greet them. One of them laid something on the table. Then stiffly they filed out, leaving the door open. The general looked at the open door, then at the thing on the table-a revolver...
...family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
...Through the Door...