Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breadwinner relates the story of two English families, next door neighbors: the Battles and the Grangers. The two wives have nothing to worry their silly heads about. The four children talk a good deal about how "shy-making" are their parents' stodginess and lack of imagination. Charles Battle (A. E. Matthews) is a stockbroker in The City. Alfred Granger, a barrister, is a hearty, roast-beef-of-Old-England sort of fellow...
...rule which prevents any member of Leverett House from leaving high table until all is over unless he has a college appointment. At the first of these festivities last night one member of the house wanted to leave early. He arose after the salad course. At the door he was asked whether he had a college appointment or a "date" with a lady. He had the latter. So he was sent back to his seat...
...political ideal has always been to encourage private enterprise, to bestow upon it the earned rewards of brains and labor, and to keep open the door of opportunity. Here, I believe, is the key to material success. Here is a political ideal worth guarding and fighting...
Died. Samuel Livingston Mather Jr., 15, son of the Cleveland steel tycoon, by hanging himself with a belt looped over the top of a door in his bedroom; in Mentor, Ohio. Reason assigned: grief for his mother who died last June. His father was just landing in Europe when the news came...
Tunes to tintinnabulate through early autumn tea dancing: "I Love Him. the Rat," "The Girl Next Door," "Not That I Care...