Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimminy Crickets ! TIME, please do not let a smart-alecky "future admiral" take you for a sea jaunt [TIME, Feb. 21]. "W. T. Door"-water-tight door in seagoing jargon...
...stairs of a little gallery on East 57th Street. Classes Tuesday through Thursday, then a weekend. Cocktail parties, getting around, meeting people, exchanging ideas. Then topping it off with a spot of culture like this. The sign read, Paintings, Moorish in Subject, Matisse in Influence. He opened the door...
...another, he was upstairs at home asleep when the house of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer was blown up (two men were blown to bits and the Roosevelt house next door was partly wrecked by the blast). Says James: "I remember it so well because Mother rushed home and gave me hell for being out of bed." Searching among the ruins of the Attorney General's house next morning, 12-year-old James found a human collar bone. He brought it home and put it on the table. "It almost spoiled the family's breakfast" he recalls...
...score of expert researchers; employs another score of specialists to operate a "morgue" containing 12,000 reference books, and where 1,400,000 reports and articles are filed under 110,000 headings; in 1923 TIME'S news source was a big bundle of newspapers dropped at the office door morning and evening. Whereas TIME today has a staff of 20-odd full-time associate and contributing editor-writers. TIME'S editors 15 years ago had a staff of three or four full-time associates (two of whom frequently wrote 50 to 70% of the magazine) and about...
...stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took him into protective custody, finally sent him back to India with an escort...