Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typewriter that Vice President Al Buhler, The Victor Adding Machine Co. sent me. My feet rest on a choice "Quaker" rug that Dwight L. Armstrong. Vice President The Armstrong Cork Co. sent me and I marvel at the whiteness of the Murphy Da Cote enamel on the window and door trim that Salesmanager H. H. Pratt, Murphy Varnish Co. sent me - while Doyle Advertising Manager The Lloyd Mfg. Co. rocks contentedly in a trick rockerless rocker Lloyd Loom Chair he sent...
Thirsty inhabitants of Greenwich Village were alarmed one day fortnight ago to see a large new padlock on the door of a popular 6th Avenue shop. Gone from the window were the innocent green ginger ale bottles which had identified it as one of Manhattan's legion of "cordial & beverage" shops. On the sidewalk rested several battered milk cans. Pasted on the door was a notice that read: "Closed for violation of the Prohibition Law." But before the day was over Villagers were reassured. The sign had not been up 24 hours before above the padlock notice appeared...
...lists. It is therefore difficult for him to understand the idle gossip which he continually hears about "law and order." He has seen and heard many evidences of the power of the law. A drunken, riotous crowd in a country tavern will be stilled by firm knocks at the door and the cry of "King's men and the Law." Famous and awesome are the "laws of the Medes and Persians." And once on a clear, balmy night in London the Vagabond himself saw a mad wight dragged off to the courts by a Bobby for stoning the Albert Memorial...
...World Peace, composed of seven bishops, seven priests and seven laymen. It said: ". . . Much of the lawlessness prevalent today arises now, as in the past, in connection with the necessity of control of the liquor traffic, although it is a distorted view of conditions which lays at the door of the Prohibition law too large a responsibility. . . . There is ... widespread and honest difference of opinion, in the nation, within this Church ... as to the wisdom and desirability of retaining the 18th Amendment and the consequent legislation in their present form." ¶ Wearily, deputies and bishops continued to wrangle over Divorce...
Questions as to the value of purely cultural college courses are being raised more often than ever of late; for in these times when technically-trained specialists are finding but few positions and men from liberal-arts colleges are driven to selling bath-brushes from door to door, reassuring words regarding the practical value of the classics are apt to be welcome. The last "Transcript" carries the story of Professor Julian Taylor, who has taught Latin at Colby continuously for sixty-three years. A scholar of the old sort who has been to a remarkable degree a friend of four...