Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans into line. He got fervent support from Missouri's Dewey Short, who opened an attack on New Deal spending by disdaining the microphone and bawling: "I never did like to speak through a tin horn. It's like kissing a beautiful girl through a screen door...
...Seattle's Fire Chief William Fitzgerald: no man can face a crisis with his pants off, but a woman forgets about modesty if the fire is hot enough. Nevertheless he warned firemen not to be crude when rescuing ladies from bathtubs. "Don't just break down the door. Knock first and say, 'Ma'am, this is the fire department.' Then break down the door...
Radcliffe's recently founded magazine, Radditudes, will offer the only chance for obtaining the few remaining albums in the metropolitan area before the band's new issue later this month. Six copies will be given away as door prizes at an informal dance to be sponsored by the publication on March...
Moving in on Pompet airfield at the start of 1944, we had little but curiosity toward the smoking peak which rose up 3000 feet above us and six miles away. The fact that our field was on a cinder bed and that the ancient city of Pompet next door had once been completely in-undated seemed to have no connection with the spluttering little furnace that attracted sightseers to the top of Vesuvius...
...that, while the PBH-sponsored service usually can obtain better seats than are available at the box office, his organization cannot be expected to procure tickets for performances that have alrealy been sold out. As an added service, a daily notice of soldout performances will be posted on the door to the PBH office...