Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped. Out of the taxi stepped Lawyer Hamilton and Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court. With his hat pulled over his eyes and two packages of Chesterfield cigarets in his hand, Hugo Black marched through the garage and into the house by the cellar door in order to broadcast to the U. S. people his reply to the accusation that he belonged to the Ku Klux Klan...
...street four newsreel cars and 250 people-reporters, cameramen, and bareheaded neighbors were lined up. At the house next door Mrs. Margaret H. Cox was giving a "Black radio party" with 18 guests, obligingly sent out her maid with coffee for the press. Daniel Goodacre, 13, begged the used flash bulb from a photographer who snapped the arriving Justice, explaining: "This is the biggest thing that's ever happened out here, even counting the time a man shot himself in his garage and that big brush fire...
Suddenly the door opened to reveal Homer Martin's evangelical features looking like those of a cornered gangster. He had a cigaret between his lips, a pistol in his fist. Stepping back from the pistol pointed at his midriff, Leader Gallagher said icily: "That's a hell of a way to greet a union...
...from the late Phineas T. Barnum, the Maintenance Department men have painted, in large white letters on the new exits from Sever Hall, "Emergency Egress Only." It was Barnum who, when he wanted to clear his famed American Museum, put a sign reading "To the Egress," over a door to the street, and the local citizenry, eager to see the new curiosity, soon found themselves out of the museum, leaving room for more to enter...
Over in Harvard Hall, they have reduced the whole matter to much simpler terms by just painting on the doors leading to the new back exit, signs which say "Please leave the class room by this door...