Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was also Constable Everett Earp (second cousin to Gunman Wyatt Earp, famed frontier marshal), who owns the place and keeps his real-estate office in the back. Earp removed the outdoor privy a couple of years ago, but the mule shoe that Father Truman nailed over the door the day Harry was born is still there. Earp explained: "I cut $5,000 off the price, if the state would allow the placement of a bronze plaque in the living room as a memorial to my mother and father...
...Door Was Open. The sheriff explained later: "The trouble was a report had got around that the Negro had killed me. The men were pretty riled up and when they didn't find me at home, they thought maybe I was dead...
...wired with trip cords; if an intruder steps on one, all the lights in the house go out. Still another keeps one brother bartending in the basement. In case of an inspection, the bartender is supposed to sweep his bottles into a suitcase and exit by a back door...
Lockout. In Trenton, N.J., the state supreme court, dismissing Mrs. Lillian Brown's divorce suit, ruled that since she had changed the lock on the door and refused to let her husband in the house, she could scarcely complain that he had deserted...
...Dinner at Eight, Stage Door), co-winner