Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First out at the White House door was hatless Edsel Ford. Behind trotted stooped but spry Henry Ford and Publicist William J. Cameron who usually speaks for Henry Ford and usually is at hand on those rare occasions when Mr. Ford speaks for himself. A throng of newsmen and Government clerks, idly curious during lunch hour, had been given to understand that Hosts Franklin & G. Hall Roosevelt and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles would lunch with the Fords on the secluded terrace at the rear of the White House. But the party was shifted inside to the family...
Harry Stutz died in 1934. That year Stutz Motor Car Co. made just six cars. It borrowed1 $266,000 from RFC., At last, as a final indignity, it started making door-to-door delivery wagons for butchers and bakers instead of low, fast, flashy cars for racing drivers, and "Bearcats" for college boys. Some of the new commercial models could be driven standing up; even that did not help. Last year the company subsided into 77B, trustees began casting about for reorganization plans acceptable to two-thirds of the creditors. Last week Federal Judge Robert Baltzell gave...
There was a knock on the door. The Vagabond sloshed his safety razor in the bowl, took a sideways squint at the inch-wide path through his frothy whiskers and traipsed down the hall. It was Dick and Phil, two friends from the Yard...
...Vagabond couldn't answer that one. He went back to his shaving. A few minutes later he heard them wrestling in the sitting room. Then before he could stop them, they slammed out the door and went rocking across the quadrangle arm in arm, singing a Harvard song...
...inscription over the door of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room, in Widener Library, will shortly be removed and replaced by a new one in memory of Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice, Keyes DeW. Metcalfe, director of the library, said yesterday...