Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouse-quiet grew the great room that all heard distinctly the click of the spring latch on Signor Mussolini's door as it was opened by his private secretary. Though the fellow smiled reassuringly, even obsequiously, many an editor had the feeling that he and his newspaper were being bowed into a trap if not onto a gallows. As they filed into the sanctum, each sheepishly saluted the lionesque Dictator, who stood at immobile salute behind his great carved desk...
...Blood! ... I and my followers protest! ... Let us not adore idols. . . . We defy the powers of. . . ." Before Senor Soto y Gama could specify what powers he and his propose to defy, the Congress hall shivered slightly and Deputies cried, "Earthquake! Earthquake!" Then they hopped and bolted out the door like prairie gophers. Late escapers said that before they got out the huge crystal chandelier of the Chamber was swinging through an arc of 30 degrees. Had it dragged down the roof and fallen, Mexico's Congress might have been squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very...
...that of Dorothy Dix. Tom Barry wrote Courage and Janet Beecher, who has a public, played it. She was an extravagant widow with seven children; these with the exception of the youngest abused her for wasting their inheritance. The one who was loyal was rewarded when the lady next door, who had loved his pretty, boyish face, left him $500,000 when she died. Thus there was plenty dough for everybody...
...taken, nor tell the source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door is her splendid mansion. It cost scores of thousands. Each year since 1920 she spent more than $250,000. In five years she spent $750,000 advertising herself and sermons in newspapers. Her radio station VVHAP, damned for its vicious criticisms of Jews and Catholics, cost...
...editors, past and present, may purchase tickets for themselves and their guests at the door...