Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bailey. Over his colleagues in Congress, as over his constituents, he has developed a hold based on respect and confidence. Aged 49, he regards John Nance Garner as "a second daddy." For all 14 years his capital residence has been a room in the modest Washington Hotel next door to Mr. Garner's. Lindsay Warren did not consult the White House when he drafted the Reorganization bill. The New Deal's leader in the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley, even stepped aside in the sharp Senate battle, leaving the generalship to Jimmy Byrnes.* Thus: Reorganization, 1939, was neither written...
...went one campaign into Chekiang Province, right at Shanghai's unconquered back door. Pop! went another into Kiangsi. Objective of the new drive was Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang...
...girl who wears a cotton stocking Need never give her door a locking...
...music begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...
...times out of ten he is as well able to handle a case as the specialist is; and . . . if the profession does not take care, the family doctor will vanish. . . . The medical profession, by its drift toward specialization, is handing the family doctor his hat and showing him the door. At the same time, we the general practitioners are implored to stay, but we cannot long survive the economic competition with superspecialism. It is a vicious circle...