Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stewart said that the burglars took five pictures and a hammer from the Advocate. With the hammer they went up a fight in the 40 Bow St. building to splinter the door of the Bat Club...
...Dwight Eisenhower's New York headquarters a few days before the election, a receptionist slipped down the hall to take a look at Herbert Brownell, the great campaign strategist. She peeked in his office door and saw a man who had passed her desk a score of times. Said she in tones of disappointment: "Oh, is that him? He looked so unimportant I didn't think he could possibly be Mr. Brownell...
June Haver finished work on her latest picture, The Girl Next Door, in December. Last week she announced that she would make no more. After Hollywood goodbyes, she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kans., the order that staffs St. John's Hospital. There she hopes to stay for two years, until she may become...
...early 20s, Ida Scudder went back to India to help her ailing mother. One night, as she sat alone in the mission bungalow at Tindivanam, a Brahman came to the door with a tale of woe. His child wife was in labor, and the midwives had given up hope of saving her. Would Miss Scudder come to the rescue? Ida said that she was not a doctor, but that her father would be glad to help. The Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife...
Pleading for what he termed "an open door policy," Kelley said. "Education is too important to draw any line simply on the financial backing of any student. It leaves Harvard, with all its tax-free property, wide open to criticism...