Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landsberg prison, Germany, Willi Frey, 23-year-old SS man, showed that he had learned something from the conquerors. "I will go to the gallows singing Give Me Five Minutes More and Open the Door, Richard!" he had boasted. But Willi had not learned much...
...soldier muttered, then fished a wad of German bills out of his pocket. He took a large, 20-mark note ($2), lit it, found the 50-pfennig piece, and with a smile handed it to the woman. The smoldering remains of his 20 marks he tossed out the door...
...Duke of Windsor, on his stopover in Britain (en route to the south of France), paid a quiet call on Prime Minister Clement Attlee at No. 10 Downing Street, stayed 40 minutes, departed by the back door. The inside dopesters concluded (as they did last year, when the Duke also visited the P.M. and left by the back door) that Windsor would presently have a job with the Empire. Four days later everybody was still waiting, ears hopefully cocked...
...chauffeur-bodyguards brings one of his Buicks around to the door for the 29-mile drive into town (via an arterial gallingly named Roosevelt Road). After one recent commuting trip on which he noted that the crows seemed to be getting out of hand, he was moved to take over the Tribune farm column for a short essay on weapons: "The firearms manufacturers," he wrote, "have been dead from the neck up for about 40 years. . . . The crow easily gets away from anything the old-fashioned shotgun can throw at him. There is needed a crow gun to decimate this...
...story is told in flashbacks by Navy Flyer Van Johnson to a notably patient fellow derelict, as they drift along the Pacific in a disabled plane. As a small-town boy Van wanted to be a doctor, and spent a lot of time with the little girl next door. He drank down the wild stories of his seafaring uncle (Thomas Mitchell) as eagerly as the uncle drank whiskey. The uncle's tales of the uncharted, paradisiacal island "High Barbaree" especially fascinated the boy; High Barbaree became his byword for all he ever hoped to do and be. While...