Word: doored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...loud rap-rap-rapping on his bedroom door late one night last month awoke Louisiana's red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long from a sound sleep in the executive mansion at Baton Rouge. He sat up, rubbed his eyes, looked at his watch. It said 1:40 a. m. He said, "Come in." And in trooped legislative clerks, secretaries, photographers, newshawks. The Governor was handed a pen and a bill just passed by the night-sitting Legislature...
Manager Beattie, local agent of the far-flung Royal Bank of Canada, was out riding. The blast lifted his horse from under him. Manager Beattie crawled on the ground, clung to groaning trees. A liquor warehouse burst. Bottles of whiskey rolled into the door of the nearby U. S. consulate. Consul G. Russel Taggart was stunned by a falling piece of roofing metal...
...OPENING OF A DOOR-George Davis-Harper...
...every prize-winner there is a proxinie accessit (he came very near). Jn this case the prize-winner (of Harper's $10.000 contest : TIME, Aug. 3 i » was Robert Raynold's lirothers in the Vest; proxinie accessit was Author Davis' The Opening oj a Door. When you have read them both you may ponder the discrimination of judges: if you are wise, you will throw no stones. The Opening of a Door is an ex-i raordinarily good first novel, but any committee might be pardoned for deciding that its subject, manner, authorship had too Julian...
Douglas, his style has excited critics to extravagant praise. The Opening of A Door is his first book...