Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shows a Salvation Army "citadel" with doors marked MEN and WOMEN. Every time an actor starts for one, the crowd shouts: "Wrong door, wrong door...
...Duke of Windsor, when Prince of Wales, scandalized the English by appearing, in women's clothes, in a piece called The Bathroom Door...
Last week at his home in Santa Monica, next door to Norma Shearer's, Fairbanks was in bed, resting after two mild heart attacks. He had been to a football game two days before, then to dinner at his son's home. His male nurse heard the Fairbanks mastiff, Marco Polo, growling beside Fairbanks' bed, entered to find that Death, as it must to every man, had come to restless Douglas Fairbanks...
...Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce because of an alleged slur on Philadelphia's hotels. Casus belli: A Fred Allen radio program in which he and Program Guest Jack Haley reminisced about a little troupers' hotel in Philadelphia. Mused Haley: "My room was so small, when anyone opened the door, the doorknob got in bed with me." Allen: "My room was so small the mice were hump-backed...
...plant. It will double P. & W.'s floor space, and the building will cost United not a dime. To speed up deliveries on orders for $60,000,000 or more worth of warplane engines and an additional $12,000,000 of propellers (which went next door to United's Hamilton Standard division), France has already advanced $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 to erect the new factory. The cost will be defrayed by Pratt & Whitney gradually by a small charge on each engine delivered until the advance is used up. The new factory will belong to Pratt...