Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually imperturable Manchester Guardian cried: "Sir Austen Chamberlain stands almost alone in this country in his willingness to open the door of the League Council to French intrigue. It is difficult to believe that he has or can obtain the support of the Cabinet. He will certainly never obtain that of the country. . . . If he persists in his present line of action, the tender shoot of Locarno will wither at birth...
Thoroughly annoyed, Carol threw his companion's mink coat over his arm, seized her bouquet of roses, and requested her, in Roumanian, to leave the wagon-lit by a door at the opposite end from that whence he descended. The cameramen, torn between the two good shots thus offered, exploded their flashlights frantically, cursed vociferously, literally stalked their photographic game...
...Jersey once had 100,000 members, now has perhaps 60,000. Its political power is not great. There has been a large amount of internal dissension. It still holds spectacular out-of-door meetings...
...English throne. Within a month Darnley had shown himself to be a selfish, inconstant, drunken roisterer, vicious and contemptible. A hired assassin could have murdered Rizzio, her Italian diplomatist, but to discredit Mary, Darnley was persuaded to have it done of his own will, at the very door of her chamber in Holyrood. "Well, ye have taken the last of me, and so, farewell," she cried to him when she recovered consciousness...
...were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop to be insulted, segregating audiences at college concerts, banning mixed dancing, silk stockings, decollete gowns, leading Fisk entertainers into a white men's club by the kitchen door. The students were striking and they were demanding a new president, a black president...