Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roosevelt linked arms and led him in. Little old Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, who had sworn the last five Presidents, administered the oath. Then came the historic Inaugural Ball in the cavernous Pension Building. Roosevelt slipped out a side door of the White House and soon was tracking and slaying wild animals in an Africa not yet crowded by tourist-hunters. Taft stayed behind, corpulent, just, constantly annoying his children, the citizens, by his benevolent logic. They had voted for him because the dynamic, hustle-up Roosevelt had told them to. When they found how unRooseveltian Taft was, they...
...British naval compromise delivered to the Foreign Office at noon today, was greeted with relief by British officialdom. . . . So confused had British public opinion become over the whole question of the compromise, that alarmist reports from the United States that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily constructed and phrased diplomatic document that has come from Washington for a long time, and that it deserves rank as a masterpiece...
...raised from the age of seven in the home of a benign Parisian priest. Francois took both the bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Paris. One midnight, when the priest had gone to bed, the student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With him were 3 young picklock and a less specialized, more versatile scoundrel. After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious...
...trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...
...center of this room a door will open into a large hall of the West Wing. This hall is to be an exact replica of a judiciary court, and will have in the rear of the room, a small library for the benefit of visiting judges...