Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Lost. In Chicago, Benjamin Karns lugged a door into court to prove that he had not broken it down 'to beat his exwife, was jailed when the judge discovered a loose panel...
Johnny West heard. He opened the cab door, shot Conn in the lungs and hit a game protector named Frank Friemoth in the shoulder. But as Conn sank, his Tommy gun cut loose. West toppled out to the pavement, dying, his face a bloody pulp...
...score or so of Germans watch curiously. A woman mutters savagely: "The Russian women have dresses on now. but you can see they still aren't used to them." The other women murmur appreciatively at the swishing skirts, bright prints and daring necklines that flash quickly from the door to the cars, but one husband says angrily: "Come along home. This is no cure for being hungry." In the dark street, hate blazes furiously-but not too noisily...
Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser...
There are two doors between his workroom and the light, airy, modern living room. "When both doors are closed, no one may enter," says Vera Stravinsky. "When only the workroom door itself is closed, I may enter, but only I." The room is soundproofed. Says Stravinsky: "I cannot work where I can be overheard...