Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl Next Door. In Camden, N.J., Gustav W. Weber sought a divorce on the complaint that he had married the girl next door four years ago-but she went right back to mother on their wedding night, had stayed next door ever since...
...define the "life" of a mother? I only know that mischief and trouble dissolve when a muddy wild Indian of two-and-a-half comes in the kitchen door, wraps his arms around my legs, looks at me and says, in unconscious imitation of his daddy: "Hya, honey...
...sword in my hand. The black creature suddenly contracted toward the foot of the bed . . . and [fixed me) with a glare of skulking ferocity and horror. ... I struck . . . with my sword. ... I pursued, and struck again. But [the "vampire] was gone! and my sword flew to shivers against the door...
More concerned with the thoughts and reactions of Russians, than in their physical setting, "Through Russia's Back Door" is a running account of conversations and incidents from Shanghai to Berlin, as a reporter saw them. Lauterbach was tied down to a coach of the Trans-Siberian Railway through most of the trip, and the book necessarily suffers from the limitations of such a vantage point. This narrow scope of observation does not, however invalidate his report; it merely robs it of the greater sampling possible if be had been allowed free rein to talk and travel as he pleased...
...America's as the Soviet's, with the balance tipped in favor of Russia, since we always had the advantage of the atom bomb. The press, too, comes in for its share of criticism--he accuses a portion of it of deliberately distorting the facts. "Through Russia's Back Door" will not make easy reading for those content to blame Ivan for all our present woes...