Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling Card. In San Francisco, police had little difficulty picking up William Gene Hoffman for attempted burglary when they found his picture and fingerprint on half of an identification card he had used trying to jimmy open an apartment door...
Homework. In Oklahoma City, as Detective L. L. Filson took down the description of a fugitive on his home telephone, he glanced out the window and saw the fugitive walking by, stepped out the front door and arrested...
...filled to fire-law capacity, fruitlessly alternated between the two entrances, hoping to catch one of the two policemen in a more charitable mood than the other. Others concocted stories about being the personal guest of Mr. Cummings. Two or three climbed the fire escapes only to find all doors firmly fastened. One enterprising young man and his date gained entrance to the basement of Memorial Hall, worked his way through a labyrinth of corridors, and finally came to a dead end when a door on the main floor wouldn't yield to his jackknife. It would seem that such...
Titcomb, who lives across the street from the Blockhouse, saw five or six boys shricking obscenities from a dark blue four-door ear and throwing snowballs at the building's windows around 2 a.m. Saturday...
After Johnson refused them the beer, the boys went back down two flights, and began pounding on the Advocate's door...