Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dealers on the council, in the last two Presidential campaigns served Franklin Roosevelt on the Democratic Labor Committee. As a result of his efforts last week, President Green was noticeably less militant than at the start of the convention. Invited to walk through A.F. of L.'s "open door" were C.I.O. textile, automobile, garment and oil unions. Cried Bill Green to them: "The key has been thrown away and we are singing that happy refrain, 'Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home...
...plain Ford sedan disgorged Mr. Ford at the door of the company's administration building in Dearborn. He loped into Mr. Bennett's office and called out: "Hello, boys!" Flushed and grinning, who should pop up and shake hands but Homer Martin, president of U.A.W. Then for five minutes Mr. Martin had the fun of talking with the one automaker whom U.A.W. has not yet cracked...
...Tuesday afternoon. The varied articles of clothing on the hangers had not the resplendency of new garments, but they did have the proper aristocratic drape and much good, solid wear in them. Sometimes this friend of Vag's would come to his penthouse room and timidly knock on the door and ask in a small voice if Vag had anything for him. Vag seldom did. And he has nothing for him now except a growing respect for this little man who manages to be so dignified about an undignified business. His store is bare now, and all the stuff...
...undergraduate publications yesterday fought desperately to keep the wolf from the door, one in vain, as financial disaster faced the Lampoon and the new defunct Monthly...
...Washington Square. Charles gradually became known for decorative panels inlaid with silver and gold leaf, of which last week the Addison Gallery showed 19. Maurice, upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke of the beautiful movement that women had made when, at a streetcorner, they turned round to lift up their skirts before they scurried across...