Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first persons of importance that were met were the Lovely Sisters, Nelda and Violet respectively. Arriving at a door market "Quiet, Stars in meditation" whence issued a highly non-meditative bit of harmony, the interviewer was suddenly thrust into a small room containing numbers one and two of the fifty six with no further warning than "Get Decent" on the part of the Stage Manager. "Ooooo," sagaciously remarked the fair Miss Nelda, and this interviewer retreated hastily, having been warned by that expressive exclamation that the young lady behind the screen (Miss Violet) was not to be seen...
...powder. And these two were followed by such a galaxy of Bodies Beautiful that any further coherent conversation was impossible. A ripple of voices, a few whisps of silk, a hasty retreat and the fifty six candle power light of beauty had vanished behind a very final looking stage door...
...reverted to his 1928 campaign theme: "The door of opportunity and. the ladder to leadership should oe free for every new generation. . . . This is the American system. . . . We have seldom tried even to name it. . . . Some have called it Liberalism but that term has become corrupted by political use. Some have called it Individualism. . . . By its enemies it has been called Capitalism and yet under its ideals capital is but an instrument, not a master. Some have called it Democracy, yet Democracy exists elsewhere under social ideals which do not embrace equality of opportunity...
...second oil scandals (1928). Senator Nye summoned Field Chief Kelley for an hour's conference after which he declared: "I can't help but be impressed by the spirit moving Mr. Kelley. I think he is entitled to a hearing. His charges do not go to the door of Secretary Wilbur. There is a door to which his objections lead and that door should be opened...
...plush cords were stretched across a corridor of the Capitol at noon one day last week. Tourists lined up to watch a heavy door open at one side of the corridor and nine elderly gentlemen in black robes file out and across and into another room. A moment later they emerged in a dim-lit semicircular room, took their places in nine black high-backed chairs on a raised platform. A handsome young man in a cutaway coat cried: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw...