Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slipped out a rear door and into a carriage; eluded detectives; drove across the bridge (Ohio River) into Indiana. There, despite several efforts to kidnap or to extradite him, and despite the pardon issued for him by Kentucky's next Republican Governor (Augustus E. Willson) in 1909, he lived until last week, a respected citizen of Indianapolis, but for reasons of his own an exile...
...into the low-priced field with the throttle wide open. Item A: the new Plymouth, a four-cylinder car, with Silver-Dome high-compression engine which uses any gasoline, capable of a speed of more than 60 miles per hour, selling for $670 (roadster, coupe) up to $725 (four-door sedan). Item B: the new De Soto, a six-cylinder car selling for less than $1,000. In performance and appearance, it is similar to the new Chrysler 65, a slightly more expensive car. "Much for little" is the idea behind the De Soto...
...strange interlude of a fat Senator in a summer hotel was headlined last fortnight as follows: HEFLIN SCENTS PLOT AS BED CRASHES. Last week the Senator and the hotel management, in Asbury Park, N. J., explained. The Senator's story was that two men came to his bedroom door late one evening and said they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong...
...into Liberia. The U. S. State Department and Herbert Hoover brought pressure to bear to make the Liberian government accept the refinancing operations and admit Firestone rubber. Eventually, the lands of the natives will be confiscated. Through the terms of the loan, through U. S. financial advisers, a closed door has been established. It will end in peonage." Shocked, the State Department issued vigorous and sweeping denials. The Firestones have used but 20,000 of its 1,000,000 acres. The U. S. will not countenance closed doors, forced labor...
...epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride...