Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the three-hour interview, a noisy, chugging sound persisted from the bathroom off Petrillo's office, and the desk buzzer that swings open his office door wouldn't work. These annoyances finally burned him up. "Seme days everything goes wrong!" he shouted. "You can't get the damn plumbers here. They don't fix the buzzer...
...last week the door to the President's Oval Study swung open and Al Whitney entered...
Highways to everywhere, dental work for everybody, pensions for the old folks and bonuses for veterans-all this and more Earl Long promised the citizens of Louisiana if they would elect him governor. "Welcome" would be written over the capital door. "The governor gets his house free, and his groceries and everything free," Earl proclaimed, "and I want you all to come up to the mansion and have a cup of coffee. You might as well, because you'll be paying for it anyhow...
Duclos finished to thunderous applause. The audience sang the Marseillaise instead of the Internationale (which is de rigueur at more conventional Communist meetings). Then the petits bourgeois filed out in orderly fashion. At the door, they received leaflets urging them to join the Communist Party. The Reds tried to tell them that they had nothing to lose but their taxes; most French bourgeois knew that they had nothing to win but their chains...
...public schools in England.* For a couple of hundred years, under head masters who didn't have to worry so much about the business side, Rugby was an "anarchy tempered by despotism." In 1797, the boys rebelled against one flogging head master, smashed his windows, blew down his door, burned his books, and only desisted at the approach of soldiers with fixed bayonets...