Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...householder nearest the scene refused to admit the rough-looking man in sheepskin and overalls who came pounding on the door to telephone for an ambulance. The householder sent for the ambulance himself. At the hospital, they said that Motorist Hanson might not live and would certainly be blind if he did, perhaps insane. A bullet had smashed into his right temple...
...first man who stepped on his porch. "You scoundrels, get out of here and go to hell," said Editor Dean. They went to the plant of the Daily Herald; but the employees of Editor Dean kept them away from the presses with loaded revolvers. They hung crepe on the door of the Daily Herald's offices, then sheepishly went home to sleep...
...High Hatters. Neither very funny nor very exciting, this slangy little mystery farce was wafted quietly into a theatre by a draught from the wings when someone left the stage door open to the lazy mid-spring airs of Broadway. It summarizes the doings of two second story men who become inmates in a boobyhatch so that they can practice their profession without legal interruption...
Approved the erection in Manhattan of the projected Broadway Methodist Temple, after much argument and the anxious comment, provided by the opposition, that the Temple would open "a very, very wide door...
Impersialism, if ever justified, would certainly be excusable on the part of an over-populated island next a disorganized country rich in undeveloped natural resources, but China has been held sacred by the governments of the world ever since the Open Door policy was adopted. Much as the abstract principle of liberty appeals to publics of every land, it would be almost too inconsistent for England to turn from her Egyptian "problem" or the United States from its Nicaraguan campaign to warn Japan out of Manchuria. But altruism by proxy is a favorite virtue of governments, and may yet save...