Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first outward sign of what the President had done was three figures leaving a private door of the Treasury Department early in the morning. A thick grey mist enfolded them as they entered the ceremonial East Gate of the White House grounds. Walking through the rolling South Grounds, they skirted the back of the White House and entered the executive offices by a rear door used only by the President himself. It was 8:45 a. m. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon?for he was one of the three?removed his coat without aid (none of the White House staff...
...Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
Toward daybreak the gunmen took a grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
...procession of elderly men filed down the steps into the Gothic chapel, those who had not been there before read the inscription above the door: "The Way of Peace." Inside the vaulted, half-underground chapel they stared curiously at the tombs of Woodrow Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Associated Pressman Melville E. Stone. They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee...
Almost as Death came a limousine swirled up to the hospital door. Out stepped the dying woman's younger sister, Margaret of Hohenzollern, wife of the Landgrave of Hesse, who accompanied her. They hurried up the stairs?too late...