Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprise team of the National League was Bill McKechnie's Boston Bees, who had decisively beaten both the Giants and the Cubs the past month and were still knocking at the door of the first division last week, despite the team's dependence on material recruited from the minor leagues. For their showing Boston credited Manager McKechnie's shrewd choice of two "old rookies," Pitchers Jim Turner and Lou Fette, who proceeded to win 18 and 17 games respectively this season, simply providing a fresh demonstration of the axiom that 30 is the best...
Once past the doorman-a 7 ft. 5 in. young Texan named Dave Ballard-visitors stepped into an interior whose smoothly modernistic, chromium-&-glass door reminded some of them of a Warner Bros. set, others of the Chicago World's Fair. A bar, starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than...
...governing the use of the two doorways, congestion is likely to be as bad as ever. The "one-way traffic" plan set up by the University, contemplates a constant flow from south to north. Incoming students to classes in the building are asked to use the old, or south door, on what has come to be regarded as the front of the hall, while students leaving classes are requested to leave via the new exit on the north side...
...last race one day last week, the track's managing director, dapper Walter E. O'Hara, sat nervously champing a cigar in his luxurious penthouse atop the clubhouse. By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation of State police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara...