Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students using Lamont Library can stop entering by the back door today, for the main entrance on the third level will be open. The back door, however, will now be closed to students so that workmen can finish the walk leading...
Sugar? The 30-page program which last week arrived at the door of every Labor Party bigwig was entitled Labor Believes in Britain. One wag recalled Carlyle's comment to a young lady who declared that she had accepted the Universe: "By God, Madam, you'd better!" A lot of work had gone into its cherry-red, pink-striped covers. For over a year, an army of party researchers had dredged up basic facts. Recently, during a nice weekend on the Isle of Wight, the 27-man Labor Party executive, sparked by Morrison, sifted the data and started...
...Easter Monday 33 years ago a pale, impassioned schoolmaster named Patrick Pearse marched out of the door of Dublin's General Post Office, hauled a flag of green, white and orange to the peak of the flagpole and in a ringing voice hurled a challenge at his British overlords: "Supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe ... Ireland strikes in full confidence of victory . . . We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
Behind the closed door of his office, headlong Louis Ruppel gave short, private courses in his razzle-dazzle school of journalism. Tearing out a clipping from the New York Times, he bellowed to one writer in his best Front Page manner: "Follow this up!" Summoning another staffer whose bags were packed for a trip to Europe to do a series of articles, Ruppel told him abruptly: "Your junket is off." Big Quentin Reynolds, a top Collier's drawing card, emerged pink and piqued from a personal audience. Several freelance writers who brought in stories assigned by the pre-Ruppel...
Like an oriental potentate who has beheaded all of his viziers, iron-fisted Sewell Lee Avery sat last week in lonely splendor in his paneled throne room at Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. For one day along the hushed executive corridors he could knock on any door and find no one at home. In Ward's top command, everyone else had quit. There was nobody left but old Sewell, who had once said: "I'll be here until I'm six feet under...