Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watching at the K-K-K-Kourt-house door...
Born next door to the county fair grounds in Wyoming, Ill., blue-eyed Lee Townsend hung around horses from the time he could walk. Gypsy horse traders who camped near the track every summer taught him how to judge a horse's legs and wind. When he was older, he walked race horses around the ring while the grooms shook up the stalls. On Sundays he read funny papers to an old Negro jockey named Tom Connors, wrote letters for him to his girls. It was several years before young Townsend learned why the old Negro used to line...
...side. He held services for his people, giving them "the sacraments," for, as his housekeeper explained, "we are really a Roman Catholic church although we are not under the Pope." But when the press began getting too inquisitive, "Padre" Abbate secreted himself, had a sign put on the door: For Members Only...
...some one gently rapping,--raping at my chamber door...
Some have retired to bed and locked the door...