Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driver tapped out a signal on the back door and an old lady let me into a room that looked like a set for a Hitchcock murder mystery - complete even to a single, weak, bare light bulb suspended from the ceiling and throwing weird shadows on the cracked walls...
...watched the third Red mob in a fortnight hammer its way into the City Hall. They were only about 1,000 strong, and of these only about 50 were determined toughs. At the glass front door six aged clerks leaned heavily: on their arms little white bands designated them as the special "defense force" promised by the acting mayor, Ferdinand Friedensburg...
Suddenly knees, feet and elbows came through the door, scattering glass before them. The invaders slowly climbed, one by one, through the empty frames in the door. I watched their leader-a blond youth of 20-walk quickly up to a grey-haired clerk leaning innocently against a desk, spin him around, swing a haymaker at the man's temple and send him sprawling across the marble floor against the wall. The man got up holding his aching head, shaking it slowly as if in disbelief. Fighting and fear spread swiftly...
Nevertheless, everyone wondered how soon small Dr. Queuille would go flying out the revolving door of French politics. That door has been whirling faster & faster of late, exasperating the friends of France abroad and infuriating her people at home. The large number of French parties, fostered by a system of proportional representation, means that one party can hardly ever control more than 35% of the National Assembly. This in turn means that the party in power must govern in coalition with other parties-which keep a jealous watch and often kick over the traces when they get restive...
Shortly after midnight, two detectives, who had been listening outside a rudely furnished three-room shack in Laurel Canyon, just back of Hollywood, fumbled at the kitchen door. Dancer Vickie Evans, hearing them, opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet named Lila Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford...