Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon arriving at our room, we changed our clothes, put out different coats on the Deds, and buried our noses in dog-eared copies of Julius Caesar. Soon we heard knocking at the doors along the hall, and presently "the Pope" opened our door and said to the shed owner with him: "Are these the boys?" The man looked us over, looked at the coats on the beds, and said "No." But "George A." wasn't fooled. He stood coking at us for a moment with just the trace of a smile at the corners of his mouth...
While under investigation, Cippico gave his word not to leave a suite in the Vatican, and a papal gendarme was placed at his door to bar strangers. One evening last week Cippico asked his guard to help him move some books from one room to another. Loading the obliging gendarme's arms with volumes, Cippico held open the door. When the guard entered, Cippico closed the door and locked it. He slipped into the shadows of Saint Peter's and out into the Piazza di San Pietro, where a waiting automobile whisked him off into the Roman night...
Last week in Italy, both sides were concentrating on door-to-door campaigning. The Christian Democratic party, believing that a fourth of anti-Communists failed to vote in the last election, had a slogan: "He who doesn't vote gives his ballot to Italy's enemies...
Last week blunter talk about Communists came out of Scandinavia than any yet heard from a government next door to Russia. The talker was Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, long and lank like the King whose Prime Minister he is. Gerhardsen had left school at 16 to be a road mender. Then he became a trade union organizer. When the Germans landed in Norway and ousted him as mayor of Oslo, he went back to mending roads, clad in overalls. At night, after his road work, he organized the labor union section of the Norwegian underground. Later he spent several...
Radcliffe chapters of the Committee for Wallace and the Young Republican Club are expected to enter charter petitions within the next few weeks as a result of yesterday's political open door decision...