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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...beautiful" but the "book" is poor. By means of such contradictions, after one has read the entire review and learned that in nearly all respects the show is a good one, one is led to believe that whatever faults it does have must be laid at the door of the director...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

Thus, adding sharp irony to earnestness, did Franklin Roosevelt last week again formally request the now symbolic $150,000,000 which Congress cut from its February-through-June deficiency appropriation for WPA. Congress had left the door open for the President to ask for more money if he could define a new "emergency." He now said: "The reduction in the appropriation in itself created an emergency."* He said half the $725,000,000 voted by Congress in February would be gone by April 1, with about 3,000,000 clients still on WPA's rolls. To make the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Pressure v. Blossoms | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...adjustable so that Mrs. Garner can also get a work-out sitting down, or lying on her back. "I am handicapped," explained she, "because I can't take off my dress in my office. I just pin up my skirt and shut the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...granddaughter) covering the years in France (1789-1793) which blackened his name for a century and a half. Therein Morris does more to clear his later reputation than others have managed to do for him. It is true that Louis XVI's ministers wore a trench to his door. "This Morning," runs a typical entry, "employ myself in preparing a Form of Government for this Country." He was mistaken in his methods, blinded by vanity and ignorance of the French common people. But Morris' Monarchist sympathies were far from enthusiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Less Black | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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