Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both girls had on flapping sandals which they said a "stage-door Johnny" had given them one night. The gentleman in question being in somewhat drunken condition, had allowed them to take their pick in his shoe store, they said...
Hardly responsible was Popularizer Roosevelt for a less fortunate innovation in Green Bay, Wis. So interseted ina lecture she was giving were two women who collected admissions at the door that they welcomed the offer of two unidentified men to take over their duties, returned to find the men had walked off with the evening's receipts, which Mrs. Roosevelt had intended for charity...
...Comtesse de Paris did not appear, but suddenly a door sprang open and the aide de camp of "Prince Henri, Comte de Paris et Dauphin de France" announced, with the traditional French royal reverence, " Monseigneur...
...happened to be in at the time, but the explosion caused most consternation is the adjoining suite, for an odd smelling liquid began to surge through the cracks of the fire door strongly resembling the tide at the Bay of Fundy. Succor was soon summoned as were the occupants of the room, the spokesman of whom explained that a bottle of turpentine had been poured in by mistake previously, being mistaken for water. "So it wouldn't have been much good anyway," he said, as he licked of the cover of an Economics textbook and then set a match...
...marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature at Nick's Tavern, Manhattan...