Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search your soul and answer these and seventy-five other questions, have the Dean of your college countersign them, and submit your application together with five dollars, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, two weeks in advance, the stage door will remain shut to you, according to an ultimatum issued by the chorus of "Hooray for What?" at the Winter Garden in New York...
...vessel was headed into a heavy norther which was tossing us around and filling the forward deck with four feet of water. We were carrying a shipment of 477 empty barrels on that deck, and they started to break loose and smash door knobs. . . . To save the ship from damage, we brought her around out of the wind so the crew could clear the deck and throw some of the barrels overboard. Irwin went on the forcastle head and watched the crew at work. But when the third officer headed the ship in the wind again, Irwin kept standing there...
...trial of two Negro youths for raping a white girl. He was the first Negro so honored in Marion since 1888, one of the few in the whole history of Southern jurisprudence. The trial-attended by 800 spectators who were searched for weapons at the courthouse door-lasted one day. When it ended, it took Juror Claybrook and his confreres only seven minutes to find the defendants guilty...
Reports from Radford, Virginla, yesterday turned the search for the missing William Burgess to the South, as police in that city said that a man answering his description had been identified by three people, as he sold magazines in a door-to-door canvass...
...gifts for special purpose bring with them new responsibilities. Sometimes these responsibilities are such that the University accepts them with a heavy heart and some reluctance; in rare cases it refuses them altogether. But the recent Nieman bequest, though 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 why 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; there...