Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three o'clock one afternoon last week the small, highceilinged, brown-paneled U. S. District courtroom on the third floor of Chattanooga's new Federal building was so crowded that even the jury box had filled with spectators. At 3:05 a door opened behind the bench. Out strode the black-robed members of the first of the new three-judge Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white...
...note of high Victorian principle and good will Koki Hirota announced: "In Europe and America there are some who are apt to entertain misgivings regarding Japanese intentions, as though she were trying to close China's door and expel the interests of the powers from China. . . . Not only will Japan respect to the fullest extent rights and interest of the powers in the occupied areas but she is prepared for the purpose of promoting welfare of the Chinese people to leave the door wide open to all powers and to welcome their cultural and economic co-operation there...
...recent Nieman Bequest, thought it places an additional problem at our door, can only be regarded as a great challenge to this particular academic community... We are asked to expend the money in such a way as to "promote and elevate the standards of journalism," using journalism in the widest sense of the term. The provisions of the will are very broad... After careful consideration and consultation with a number of journalists, The Corporation has decided that initially the income of the fund shall be used to support... "in-service fellowships" (which) will carry stipends sufficient to make it possible...
Aroused by the growing collegiate element in the stage-door line, the dancers recently formed a "College Date Bureau," and the committee on admissions has issued a personal information blank rivaling an income tax blank in proportions. The five dollars will go to the Stage Relief Fund, it is said...
Determined stage-door Johnnies will have to tell whether their appearance is "boyish, manly, handsome, distinguished, athletic, or scholarly"; whether they are "shy, bold, cautious, rockless, forward, retiring, or just natural with girls"; whether they are lady-killers or bookworms...