Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steelmaster Andrew Carnegie built the Georgian mansion in 1900 for $1,000,000, and later put up a 29-room house next door for his daughter. In the old days it took 25 to 30 servants to staff the mansion. They worked in a big kitchen that was white-tiled to the ceiling, waited on Steelmaker Carnegie and his guests in the walnut-paneled library, took care of the vast heating plant. In the basement there is still a mining car, with its own track and turntable, to take coal from the bunker to the stoking floor. On cold days...
...block. Two pre-positors then step forward and place their hands on the victim's shoulders. This is called "holding down," and is supposed to prevent the flogged one from rising to defend himself from the headmaster's assault. The school messenger now opens the door of the sixth form room, and the headmaster rustles in in his robes of office. A third prepositor goes to a cupboard, from which he takes the birch rod and ceremoniously hands it to the headmaster. The headmaster approaches the kneeling boy and, holding the handle of the birch with both hands...
Said brash Legislator Liu Pu-tung, a strong advocate of peace: "The road to peace has brightened." An army general read the terms. "Surrender?" he snorted. "They are asking far more than surrender." Most officials were cautious, but they thought the door to negotiation-on the Communists' terms, of course-might be opening...
...Apartment Eight on the first floor of No. 15 Blaue Lampe Strasse at 6 this evening." Beautiful Countess Kristina Dukay popped into her "sheer, cobweb-thin, rose-colored slip" and a blue dress, dabbed on some stuff called Chanson du Narcisse and scuttled off to the assignation . . . The door opened, and in came a man wearing a beard and yellow spectacles. As Kristina teetered in a state of pleasant giddiness, the man raised his hand, ripped off his beard and spectacles, and stood revealed-the Emperor Karl of Austria himself...
Willow Runs Slower. At Willow Run this week, four new lines of Kaiser-Frazer cars (a taxi, four-door convertible, "hardtop convertible," and "utility sedan") were rolled out in an atmosphere of deep gloom. Since early fall K-F had had to cut production from 800 cars a day to a current 675. It was seriously thinking about cutting back still more to 400 cars a day. Henry and Joe blamed the cutback on the Government's Regulation W under which car buyers must pay at least one-third down and the rest in no more than 18 months...