Word: doormat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonds. . . . They will pull out the hoarded money in sugar bowls, between the mattresses and in safe deposit boxes. . . . If it is all right to put the credit of the Government behind business, let the credit of the Government be used to keep the wolf of hunger from the doormat of millions of people...
...thought you unkind and exceedingly stiff and prim." In 1896 when Shaw was beginning to be recognized as a playwright Miss Terry determined to call on him, but found he was in conference with Sir Henry Irving, her manager. She wrote: "Got no farther than the doormat. Heard your voice and skuddled home again, full tilt, and, oh, how I was laughing! . . ." In 1905, when Miss Terry acted in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, she wrote: "You have become a habit with me, sir, and each morning before breakfast I take you, like a dear pill...
...market in the world and we gladly receive orders from Canada, Russia or any other country. So-called farm relief is hopelessly ineffective and it looks like somebody is looking for an alibi. Of course we must have something to wipe our feet on and Russia makes a good doormat...