Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery bombings came just as 60 Negro leaders from nine Southern states, headed by Montgomery's Martin Luther King, met in Atlanta for a two-day conference on integration strategy. When the closed-door sessions broke up, the leaders called on President Eisenhower to come South "immediately" and make "a major speech in a major Southern city urging all Southerners to abide by the Supreme Court's decision." They also urged Vice President Nixon to make a tour of the South "similar to the one made in behalf of the Hungarian refugees," and asked Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying a yellow hatbox, jumped out of the waiting car and got into Eden's car. As the door closed, Clarissa Eden opened the hatbox, took out a small cushion and tucked it behind her husband's head. From a following car, newsmen could see Eden's head roll tiredly from side to side on the cushion as the car roared at 60 miles an hour toward Chequers...
This was her last grand party. Long ailing, Mrs. Mae Caldwell Manwaring Plant Hay ward Rovensky died last July, at 75, in Clarendon Court, her 33-room summer house next door to the Vanderbilts' 23-room "Beaulieu" in Newport, R.I. (She is survived by her fourth husband, John E. Rovensky, Manhattan financier, whom she married in 1954.) This week her Manhattan house, the last of the fabulous Fifth Avenue mansions to be fully occupied, will go on the block...
...never obvious to the Father of Halitosis, who knows that to win takes skill (in sailing) and advertising (in business). In fact, Lambert's chief message to mankind is that the man who builds a better mousetrap and expects the world to beat a path to his door without advertising will leave not a yacht behind...
Cold Snorage. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Beatrice Dunn was granted a divorce after she testified that her husband made her sleep in an unheated attic for ten years "because I snored," wouldn't allow her to leave the attic door open at night because "too much cold air blew down...