Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers. Today, the Strauss home and adjoining five acres of formal gardens are surrounded by a five-foot wall topped by an 18-inch barbed wire fence. Only entrance to the grounds is a thick iron door equipped with a large bell-push and a speaking tube. The speaking tube runs through the grounds a good 50 yards to the servants' quarters. At one time the good Dr. Strauss had this speaking tube connected with a phonograph mechanism. When unwanted visitors rang the bell, a record...
...been necessary to abandon the ship in the air over land, the crew would have slipped into parachutes suspended in the cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...
EDISON'S OPEN DOOR-Alfred O. Tate -Button...
...dinners, Judge Gary in 1911 substituted the famed "Pittsburgh Plus" system-any steel consumer paid the Pittsburgh base price plus freight from Pittsburgh to his door, even though the steel might come from a mill in an entirely different location. From the steel-man's point of view, this was ideal, for it put all steel mills, no matter what their location, on an equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that...
...actress in French Without Tears (White Plains, N. Y.) ; Paulette Goddard in French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir in Much Ado About Nothing, High Tor (Schenectady and Suffern, N. Y.); Mary Brian in Honey (Dennis, Mass.) ; Douglass Montgomery in Berkeley Square (Cedarhurst, L. I.); Madge Evans in Stage Door (Suffern, N. Y.); Jane Wyatt (Coquette, Stage Door, Biography) and Elissa Landi (The Lady Has a Heart) at various resorts...