Word: doormate
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...athletic officials in New Haven have arranged an intensive program, beginning with Columbia and Princeton on the first two Saturdays. Since Columbia usually begins practice around September 1, and since that former football doormat is this year the East's representative to the Rose Bowl, it appears that Yale is offering her football team as a willing sacrifice to big-time football. The necessity for big games and championship teams with resultant packed stadiums has returned to the East along with athletic association deficits. Yale's athletic officials have cause to reach for profitable crowds...
...first deposit toward his future fortune. When he met the beauteous Sarah Jennings, although neither of them had enough money, John snapped his fingers at prudence and married her. A character in her own right, who long survived her conqueror husband, Sarah was a devoted wife but no doormat. Once she took the annoying last word by cutting off her hair; to her chagrin John apparently never noticed it. but later she discovered her shorn locks laid away with his carefully guarded treasures...
Over the noisome brown Gran Chaco, battling doormat of Bolivia and Paraguay, ominous silence has lain for more than a month. Paraguayan soldiers, backed against their Verdun, a hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep...
...legislative sire of the Federal Reserve System Senator Glass objected first to what he called having that independent credit establishment "degraded into a servile agency of the Treasury Department and used as a doormat." The least objectionable feature of the bill, he found, was the authority for the President to issue $3,000,000,000 in unsecured currency. But it was the proposal to permit the President to devalue the gold dollar that aroused Senator Glass to an eloquent pitch: "With 40% of the entire gold supply of the world, why are we going off the gold standard? Foreign governments...
...little girl she had watched R. move into an apartment across the hall from her family's flat. R. was so superior to anybody she had ever seen before, the women he brought home with him were so angelically bright, that the girl began to worship him. His doormat became sacred ground, his doorknob the shining star of love. Through thick & thin she pursued that star until, grown up, she at last waylaid him on the street, turned the blissful doorknob to her own account. Three nights they dallied, then R. went out of town. Slowly, reading the letter...