Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spent all morning trying to see my adviser. Not finding him in his office, scurried down to his room. A note was tacked on the door addressed to the instructor living with him: "If you can pay me the bet on the Yankees, send it airmail to the Roosevelt Hotel, New York. Thanks, Pericles...
...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...
...Charles Bird cornered two deputies with two guns, put them in a cell while he released his brother, Widmer and a 19-year-old youth named Theodore Slapik, awaiting trial for murder. The four descended from the fourth floor to the basement in an elevator, dashed out the front door. A few moments later they pulled Municipal Judge Louis Petrash out of the driver's seat of his car and roared off toward Cleveland's Public Square at 60 m. p. h. Disregarding traffic signals they mowed down a woman pedestrian, breaking both her arms and legs. With...
...Piney Woods" was designed to stop Georgia chain-gang and prison-camp escapes, which have embarrassed Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers. Last week, the Governor of Georgia was embarrassed again. Six of "escape proof" Tattnalls first tenants coolly sawed through their bars, wriggled through a trap door. Three of the six then clambered over a barbed wire fence, scampered off into the pine woods...
...will these 17 complete the list, Manager Whitman explained. The door is by no means closed to those who still wish to enter the competition. As in past years, many who are cut from the Yardling squad may wish to continue their association with Harvard football in this way. "But Skip wants me to emphasize," Whitman added, "there is a full schedule of 2nd Freshman games for those who recognize no substitute for the game itself...