Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generations the students of Salamanca University, in the little city that has now become the capital of Rightist Spain, had an ancient tradition. When final examinations were over the graduating class filed into the ornate, golden-brown sandstone Cathedral. Those who had failed were passed out through a side door, those who had passed remained to sing a Te Deum. If the leading man of each class had made really excellent marks, he had the additional right of painting his name and an intricate monogram of the word VICTOR in hot bull's blood on the walls...
...30th floor of Chicago's Board of Trade Building is a door with the legend MR. AUGUST KOCHS. Inside is a large suite whose three main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...
Markets 6 Exchanges-War was apparently only one of many reasons for the slump in the New York Stock Exchange (see p. 57), but other Exchange excitement could be laid entirely at war's door. Wheat jumped 3? a bushel one day on the Chicago and Winnipeg markets on a general war scare. Japanese bonds, in spite of a rally, stood 15 points below their price three weeks ago-a pain to U. S. banks which hold them as collateral for loans to Japan...
...moved his headquarters and the military and diplomatic bureaus of his government about 180 miles southwest to golden Salamanca. Salamanca is only 100 miles from Madrid with excellent highway communications to Avila, advance base for the Madrid front, and has direct rail connections with Portugal, a useful back door for German advisers who wish to avoid passing through France. Into this city whose normal population is less than 25,000, over 50,000 people have been crowded. In its one modern hostelry, the flag bedecked Grand Hotel,* none but German and Italian staff officers and the most potent politicos...
...inevitable scene in which Rathbone, looking slightly ashamed of himself, comes into Irene's dressing room after the triumphant first night of his and her show, while Bobby Breen carols a sugary Oscar Straus tune (Make A Wish), at only three-quarters of his usual volume, outside the door...