Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about four o'clock in the morning he heard someone knocking at his door; when he went to open it he was overpowered, bound by three men who had already entered the house and were hiding in the hall. His wife, hearing the scuffle, telephoned to Sheriff Robinson. The Sheriff found the jail yard filled with squatting figures. He was admitted through the front door, knocked down, laid beside Jailer Taylor. The visitors drove off with their dark, gibbering prey...
...followed these unusual visitors, you soon found out that they had not come to borrow books from the U. S. A. They passed to an inner court of the great building and entered, through a door cut through the library walls, a chaste little temple of white marble that has been completed for something over a year. They removed their wraps, settled themselves in comfortable, well-spaced seats and listened, not to a Senatorial diatribe, but to some of the purest chamber music that is to be heard anywhere in the world. It was music under the auspices...
...telephone book, the Chevrolets, the shaving mirror-the moderately comfortable, easygoing, unawakened small-bore men and their fussing, darning, worrying, loving wives. Martin and Emelie Smith are as concerned over the whereabouts of a pet pipe, moths in the clothes trunk, the working of the front door latch, the "niceness" of a family party (the only kind they ever achieve) as they are convinced of the future greatness of their stupid, bespectacled little boy, Martikins. Then, when the pipe turns up, when the latch is post-poned again, the party over, their everlasting Smithness becomes contented retrospect. Martikins emits...
...door leading from the street was opened, Arthur believes, with a key, although the revellers tried to make it look like a professional job, by digging at the door-frame with jimmy. A pane of glass in the smoke shop was smashed and the door opened from the inside, with the aid of a little jimmying from the outside. Police are looking for the jimmy and its owner...
...They were met at the door," said Mr. Page, "by a most engaging and well-informed clergyman, who spent hours in showing them everything. They accidentally discovered as they were coming away that he was 'The Very Reverend and Honourable Lord Bishop of London,' who had come five miles for the pleasure of meeting them. When I next saw him, he said, 'Noble women, whom God sent in our extremity...