Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crime wave. Robbers with Tommy guns held up trolley cars, stripped riders to their underwear, made off with their clothes. Raiding parties snatched hats (which were almost unobtainable by purchase) from men's heads in broad daylight. One Viennese, held up and stripped in front of his own door, asked for his key; the bandit fumbled through his victim's pants, found the key and the householder scurried indoors...
...surprised last week when Mohamed Ali Jinnah once again slammed the door on Indian unity. The predominantly Hindu All-India Congress Party had neatly cornered Jinnah early in January, by substantially agreeing to his conditions for Moslem League participation in the constitution-making Assembly. Then Congress Party Boss Vallabhbhai Patel committed an amazing political fumble...
...plushy Manoir Pinoteau, which features French cooking. A short run away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand to the simplest and cheapest French Canadian farmhouse...
Last week another one of those catchy tunes and goofy phrases fairly leapt across the nation. Every radio blared Open the Door, Richard! Five record versions were on sale, and 13 more (by Louis Jordan, Dick Haymes, the Pied Pipers, etc.) were being rushed to market. A quartet known as The Yokels sang it in Yiddish. Bing Crosby (an accessory after the fact), Bob Hope, Fred Allen and Bea Lillie had only to mention the word Richard on the air to put their studio audiences in stitches...
...Open the Door, Richard! made no more sense than Kilroy, or Chickery Chick or The Hut-Sut Song-and was obviously in for the same flash fame. Its simple-minded chorus, something that any fool could sing and many...