Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December 1934 police officers marched up to the door of Captain Hatfield's chicken farm, arrested him. The Canadian Government had at long last discovered that the Gypsum Queen was not torpedoed but had foundered in heavy seas. It charged Captain Hatfield with larceny and obtaining money under false pretenses, asked for his extradition. For more than two years Hatfield was held in jail at Manchester while he fought extradition...
...remembered the lady of the limousine. A license number was recalled, telephones tinkled and soon the police dog's owner had signed a complaint against Mrs. Julia Tuttle, a 65-year-old, well-to-do Larchmont widow. Late that night a detective pounded on Mrs. Tuttle's door. She was arrested on charges of dog-poisoning (for which one may be jailed a year in New York State) and taken before a Justice of the Peace, who set $500 bail after she pleaded not guilty...
...life. ... I cannot adopt such a weak report in a day when we are faced with hunger throughout the land. . . . Why is there nothing in this report condemning conditions among the sharecroppers . . . ? Starvation wages . . . ? You talk about the brotherhood of man. Why, there are Negroes standing outside the door of your convention and you won't let them in! This convention ought to go on record favoring the anti-lynching bill." While delegates shouted "no, no, no," Georgia's famed Dry William David ("Willie") Upshaw rose to crackle: "I am going to refute this young...
...Reserve. Kans., Wilbur Peck exhibited a pelt to prove his story that he had found two wolves fighting in front of his house "presumably to be first in line at the door...
...were tremendous. Standish was so bursting with health and the love of life that he even got up early sometimes to watch the sun rise. The 13th day out of Hawaii he rose before dawn, dressed with his usual care, went forward to his favorite sunrise-watching spot, a door in the bow about 15 ft. above the water, kept open because of the halcyon weather. There he stood and watched the sun rise. As he turned to go, his foot slipped on a grease spot and he fell overboard...