Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expression, "Hobson's Choice" originated in the stables back of the Bull Hotel (now the hotel garage). Hostler Hobson insisted upon exact rotation of his horses and always told students to "take your choice, as long as you take the one nearest the door...
...cheerful, contented looks. Policeman Hart, puzzled, scratched his head, remembered cheerful, contented looks on the faces of other mourners following other hearses that had passed through Hammond that day. Then Policeman Hart remembered there was no cemetery in Indiana Harbor. After the funeral he ran, threw open the hearse door, found inside many cases of liquor...
...Armistice, the scene is Paris, later Lisbon. The aviators, in a state of nervous disorder produced by their experiences in the War, are trying to regain their composure by conducting a light-headed patrol of Paris barrooms. They are so engaged when they come upon Nikki near the door of a crowded saloon holding, with a rapt expression, as though it were a chalice, a cocktail glass containing a set of false teeth. In company with...
...added saxophones, beer trays, cow bells, circular saws. Father Peterson appealed to Sheriff Elmer Saunders, had four leaders arrested, held in $50 bond by Ashland's Municipal Judge Thomas A. Humphrey. The next night the din was louder, included the popping of pistols. Father Peterson appeared at his door with a shotgun, was forced to retire...
...Observers wondered about Oilman Doherty's motive. Had he rushed into the Journal-Post in the heat of wrath, unmindful of the stigma attaching to a "kept" newspaper and all that appears in it? Or had he coolly reckoned that by walking in the front door in broad daylight, he would forestall attacks upon his and the paper's virtue? Although it declined to get excited, the New York Times opined that whatever his reasoning, Mr. Doherty had defeated his own end. Said the Times...