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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tandem method, be it noted, is still in effect, and co-education at Harvard will remain where it has long stood. This should be a comforting thought to those who will doubtless wag their heads in sadness over the spectacle of girls lounging on the door-steps of Holworthy, or the sound of feminine voices attempting a raucous "Rinchart" only to produce a penetrating "Mary Roberts." Alumni Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Attraction | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Wedding Bells? If the opening of Parliament and the new "Closed Door To Russia" policy of Canada seemed of major importance last week, there was also no small interest in a persistent, undenied report that Canada's "First Lady of Parliament Hill"* is about to wed. Fortyish, Miss Mildred Bennett keeps house for her brother the Prime Minister, aged 60. She refused to confirm or deny last week that she plans to marry His Excellency William Duncan Herridge, K. C., D. S. O., M. C., newly appointed Canadian Minister to the U. S. (TIME, March 16), aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Judge Duff, Reds, Wedding? | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...carnal sins Blight the life of babykins? All I ask is: Give our child a name-mean, a last name. My Past (Warner). Pregnancy used to be established in the films by a glimpse of tiny garments. Preliminary activities were intimated by two pairs of shoes out-side a door. Grown slightly more sophisticated, the talkies still employ euphemistic symbolism. In this picture it becomes necessary for an actress (Bebe Daniels) to tell a young man whom she loves that she is the mistress of an older man, his best friend and financial patron. This she does by grasping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Trans-Lux | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...anyone has occasion to leave the Library in the interval, he may do so by the east door. This will be the only exit left open for users of the Library during the hour devoted to the funeral service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARY CLOSES TOMORROW OUT OF RESPECT FOR LANE | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

...hint of Downing was seized upon and expanded as it flew from mouth to mouth, until at last it has actually been met skulking near the back door of history in a form something like this: General Jackson, upon being harangued in Latin, found himself in a position of immense perplexity. It was simply decent for him to reply in the learned language in which he was addressed, but, alas' the Shaksperian modieum of 'small Latin' was all that Old Hickory possessed, and what he must do was clearly to rise to the situation and make the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Harvard Charter Ever Gave College Authority to Grant Honorary Degrees | 3/17/1931 | See Source »

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