Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoofs clattered in the distance. A small cavalcade trotted down a dusty road. A startled douanier, standing in the door of his office stared up into the square faces of grey-coated horsemen riding past...
...correspondents in Loyalist Spain translated this as an admission that the potent Rightist assault against Madrid of fortnight ago had broken down. For many weeks they have been aware that the Italian and German advisers of Generalissimo Franco, gathering daily in the heavily guarded headquarters directly opposite the west door of Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from Malaga...
...reviewer last week approved a Mickey Mouse as follows: "Mickey Mouse can teach children because he has a child's point of view. Both a mouse and a child must look up at a door knob, and both see other things from similar perspectives...
...slid, spun around, knocked down a telephone pole, ripped out 15 ft. of wire fence and came to a sickening stop in the ditch. Dr. Walker was hurled from her seat with such force that she was jammed jackknife fashion 25 in. through a 15-in. opening in the door...
...suburb over the many lawsuits he has brought against Episcopal dignitaries, including one pending for libel against Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry. Lutheran Rev. Reginald Beasil Naugle specializes in fighting labor unions, and last week he cried, "We're in Russia now!" after persons unknown smashed a door glass and window of his house by hurling milk bottles. And Philadelphia is also the home of Episcopal Rev. David Carl Colony, who last week performed the latest of the exploits which make conservative members of his church shake their heads...