Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they spent a busy half-hour setting up their camera and six batteries of lights (each containing seven flash bulbs), so as to provide exactly the best lighting effects on anyone sitting in the King's chair. At precisely the appointed hour the King entered through his private door. He shook hands, chatted in English and French with the photographers, showed that he knew the rudiments of color photography. Then he sat down at his desk. In three minutes with His Majesty at his desk, Irwin & Langen made the final nice adjustments of their equipment, set their camera...
There were extraordinary doings on the third floor of Washington's Willard Hotel one day last week. A score of photographers squatted in the corridor with lenses trained on the elevator. Newsreel men fidgeted with their cameras. Reporters milled around in the glare of light reflectors. Suddenly the door opened, an elevator boy gave them a prearranged nod, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor stepped forth accompanied by George McGregor Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s three-man committee currently trying to reunite the divided House of Labor. Waving his hands...
With a marked lack of enthusiasm the crowd in the corridor took the Senator's statement and picture, and then settled down to some fun with the Willard's diminutive bellhop, Joe Johnson, posing him in innumerable belligerent attitudes defending the door against all comers. After exhausting the possibilities of Joe Johnson, who informed them that he had once been photographed perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening...
...That's O.K.," said the patient, and he walked out the door...
...called a woman's way, because . . . after all, it was women who purchased gelatine." Mrs. Knox spent $500,000 on research, built an experimental kitchen and flooded the nation with gelatine recipes. She ordered the factory kept clean as a kitchen, beautified the grounds, abolished the rear door for employes because "we are all ladies and gentlemen here together." As one result Knox gelatine sales tripled in the first decade. As another, Knox has never had any labor trouble and 85% of the present employes have been there 25 years...