Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complications concern a movie producer's (Adolph Menjou's) search for a plot with the human touch, which was possibly just what Mr. Goldwyn himself was seeking. Andrea Leeds, the dark horse who almost stole the show in "Stage Door," maintains her standard as "Miss Humanity." The technicolor is not glaring and therefore impressive. Undoubtedly the high spots of the movie are the ballet scenes, which are worth seeing even after the Chicago fire, the hurricane, and the locusts. And the title need arouse no apprehension...
Since if Japan would have to "alter her plans" to build 46,000-ton ships she was obviously building none at present, this seemed a clever way of slipping the requested information out the back door. However, it did not seem to strike Secretary Hull that way. Taking the Japanese Government's curt note as an invitation to Britain, France and the U. S. to scrap their 35,000-ton limitation, the Secretary said: "The Government . . . regrets any development which has the effect of encouraging rather than discouraging races in armament building...
...limits. Last week, angered by the niggardly contributions of his parishioners. Canon Robert J. Dunford of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Sheffield, England did what he had long threatened to do. He carefully picked all the ha'pennies from the collection, marched to the church door, pitched them into the street...
...recent speeches by Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, responsibility for the business recession was laid at the door of (1 monopolistic Big Business, 2 foreign war, 3 speculation in American stocks and bonds by foreigners, 4 overproduction, 5 insufficient gold supply...
...Open Door" as applied to China means that (1 all nations shall have equal tradings rights in China, 2 emigration to China from other nations may not be stopped, 3 Chinese may not be excluded from this country as they were under the exclusion act prior to the World War, 4 China must grant the great powers extraterritorial rights in her country, 5 the Chinese Government must keep trade routes open between the coast and the interior and protect foreign business concerns using those routes from bandit attacks...