Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magic words. I suppose a man's got to save up something for his old age but at least he's willing to part with a big chunk of them at nominal rates. Mr. Davis supplies enough to "gain you that mastery of language that will open the door to your heart's desires" This, of course, is all very fine for Yale, where the book is a standard text in English, Psychology, and ROTC courses. It has been my experience at Harvard, however, that few undergraduates are self-confident enough to approach a pocket book vendor or financially successful...
...inhabitants did less damage to the building than did the chemistry teacher who preceded them. In the 1830's Dr. John Webster, hiding behind a door while he stretched a pole with a candle at its end toward a kettle, would ignite "a volcano in an iron pot." In 1837 the pot exploded, smoke billowed forth, and his students threw themselves out of the windows...
...pictures of the incident, but the police broke into the car and took him off to jail. They also arrested Signora Disma Pollipoli, wife of an Italian Church of Christ preacher. At week's end, Missionary Paden nailed his sign outside an upstairs window and locked the front door. Said he: "The police came, and they put up their ladders, but they couldn't reach the sign. They beat on the door, but we did not open it ... So they left, and this is proof of our legal right and of God's protection...
Private Matter. When royalty goes nightclubbing, the word occasionally leaks out through a complex underground of waiters, doormen and band members. But any photographer who is sent to the scene is met at the door of the nightclub and turned away by a royal detective. Once a news photographer got a picture of six-year-old Prince Charles on his way to a cousin's birthday party. But when the photographer's editor called the palace to get some caption material, he was brusquely informed that the color of the coat was a "private matter...
...occupancy rate. Those who stay outside town struggle for a choice highway intersection, or even a slight rise of ground so that motorists can see them from afar. Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel next door...