Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening in the Methodist Building, directly across Maryland Avenue from the Supreme Court, directly across the plaza from the Capitol. His colored chauffer, going off duty, knocked at the door of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson's apartment. Mrs. Robinson was home in Little Rock and the Senator was sitting alone. Would the Senator like him to stay around, he inquired. No, no, the Senator was quite all right. He didn't need anybody to stay with...
...swath ten miles wide and ten miles deep. They claimed to have taken six strategic towns, including Brunete, while according to the Rightists this objective was never quite reached. On the northwest side of Madrid the Rightists remained entrenched in suburban University City, their "foot in Madrid's door." After five days of what all agreed had been some of the hardest troop fighting of the war, plus incessant air battles and machine-gunning of ground forces by planes, General Miaja said the loss of life in his offensive had been "very small" and that air raids...
...Comedian Oliver Hardy whom he could lift with one hand. He golfed with celebrities like Bing Crosby, and joined the Lakeside Club where the rumor was that he amused the members one day by standing husky Cinemactor George Bancroft on his head in his locker and closing the door. Through his social success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite to ask. There were rumors that Montague had gold mines in Arizona. This was merely because he often disappeared into...
Born. To Actress Margaret Sullavan, whose successful play Stage Door was closed because of her confinement last March, and to Theatrical Agent Leland Hayward: a girl, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Brooke Hayward...
When the State veterinarians knocked at the door next morning to do their duty, Mrs. Gibson called out of an upstairs window: "You'll not be able to test them...