Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Building. Before them klieg lights glared; six movie cameras were trained on one vacant chair. Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, a man with a reputation as a prosecutor, stood behind a little forest of microphones and an underbrush of wires, and kept his eyes trained on the main door...
...only express my disappointment--to put it at the lowest--that we are now shown the door, with nothing but reproaches and abuse...
...would repay a credit of ?55,000,000, resulting from a wartime agreement hastily made with the Soviet Union in 1941 after Hitler invaded Russia. In that, he had failed-the Russians insisted adamantly on terms which the British could not afford to meet. A reporter asked: "Is the door completely shut?" Replied Wilson: "That's up to the Russians...
Rita Hayworth was queen for a night in London. At the world premiere of her latest picture, Down to Earth, her adoring, howling subjects milled so thickly about the theater entrance that she had to slip in by the stage door. Her Ministers of Publicity then hustled her out front to meet some courtiers: Anthony Eden, who looked pleasantly unimpressed, and U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who seemed to like what he saw. Then Rita was enthroned beside the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George VI, to watch the show...
Fielding Forbidden. In the old days, undergraduates were met at the library door by awesome lists of Prohibited Books (sample: "All novels in the new library . . . Fielding's works, Heine's works, Voltaire's works . . . Books of prints"). They were also forced to leave their caps and cloaks at the door, lest they smuggle out the books (Harvard still loses 1,000 volumes a year, once found that one student had made off with 3,000 books...