Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sorokin declares that "Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and other famous detectives always start with the main clue; find the motive and the criminal is discovered." The professor declares that crime cannot be traced to the door by mere discovery of a motive, since a motive can manifest itself in many overt acts...
...Tokyo last week a Japanese naval spokesman barked: ". . . Placing a gun against a neighbor's door. . . . Nothing but advanced bases for long distance attack upon Japan." In Washington Congressmen, including Idaho's Senator William E. Borah, grumbled their doubts, signaled tough going for the Guam plans...
Sweeping past Montserrat, the high mountain on which the most famous of Spain's monasteries stands, the Rebels' western force pressed on toward the high range of hills, highest of which is Tibidabo, at Barcelona's back door. Barcelona's last-ditch stand would come before Tibidabo was reached, since the Rebel capture of it would mean certain conquest of the city...
...Majesty's Government desire to make it clear that they are not prepared to accept or to recognize changes of the nature indicated [closing of China's Open Door] which are brought about by force. They intend to adhere to the principles of the Nine-Power Treaty and cannot agree to unilateral modification of its terms...
John Gratin McCarthy, the "honest Irishman," went to work for a Board of Trade firm as messenger boy in 1903. He was 13 at the time and used to sneak out the back door of his home so the gang would not see him in his first pair of long pants. Before long he struck up a friendship with his boss's son, Walter Scoville, a lad of about the same age. In 1921 they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House...