Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prodding Gorhanson afresh, the convicts marched him to another door, opening from the rear of the cellhouse to the prison ballfield. They captured Guard Walter Neil on the way. At the ballyard door, Guard Neil was sent out first, then Guard Gorhanson. Before the convicts could follow, Guard Neil flung his weight against the door. Tony Brown, San Francisco thug, the convict with the "roscoe" (pistol), tried to shoot Neil's foot out of the way, but the lock clicked. The cursing convicts retired to secure the rest of their guards as hostages and hold a council...
Jewesses no less than Jews were barred from their classes by the bullying Christians. Many a Jewess wept openly, lamented loudly. Several Jews, goaded, but outnumbered, sought to dash rabbit-like in at an unguarded classroom door. Chased, they were collared, hoisted by trouser-seats, ejected from the University buildings. Two professors who sought to rescue them were pummeled, severely bruised...
German Deputies sought "door no. 2"* last week, returning from a recess taken early in November. For them a jolly, pinky-faced, white mustached statesman had prepared a heavy meal of legislative fare. He was Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler. While the deputies recessed, he had drafted the German Budget, to balance for 1928 at 9,500,000,000 marks...
...weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room by the stairs and fixed it up. No one would, so she took it, fixed it over, lined it with brocade, put on the door a big plate?FARRAR...
Superintendent McAndrew reached the door. The voice of the board's president, J. Lewis Coath, reached him: "Will the superintendent please remain?" Superintendent McAndrew's short, broad-shouldered form passed the door jam. Mayor Thompson's figurative teeth gnashed. One of them broke from the denture. It was Walter J. Raymer, Chicago banker, theretofore docile member of the board. He cried...