Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Encounter. In San Pedro, Patrolman Joseph Hansen found a body in a doorway, on the body found an identification badge. The name: Joseph Hansen...
...idea of his invention when, during a recent rainy spell, he found himself beset on all sides by determined females wielding the sharp points of their umbrellas with deadly efficacy, so much so, in fact, that he claims he was forced to cower for an hour in a convenient doorway till the rush hour passed. Fervently he wished for some sort of apparatus which would protect him reasonably well from the all too accurate thrusts of the parasol brigadiers, so when he arrived back at his little den in Weld he set to work on the plans of his brainchild...
...Cocoanut Grove patrons pushed and shoved, fell and were trampled. Joyce Spector was knocked under a table, crawled on hands & knees, somehow was pushed through an open doorway into the street. A chorus boy herded a dozen people downstairs into a refrigerator. A few men & women crawled out windows; a few escaped by knocking out a glass brick wall. But most of them, including Bridegroom John O'Neil, were trapped...
...wounded man down to the beach and I lost him. He got hit and died on the last boat going back to England. I worked on alone from 8 to 11 o'clock. Jeeze, Stew and I got a couple of Germans that were waiting in a doorway with grenades for some of our guys who were bringing down a batch of prisoners. Stew let one have it with his rifle and I plastered the other with my tommy gun. Same old Jerry, he don't fight so good when...
...then he noted a History One syllabus under the youth's arm. "These Freshmen are getting younger and younger each term," he exclaimed. The incident quickly slipped from his mind as he headed towards Mass. Hall, and then turned in between Hollis and Harvard. As he passed the doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation to a "U.S. Navy Storeroom," he looked up to note half a dozen tots and their mamas mounting the steps of PBH. "These freshmen are really getting young," he commented to himself, in search of an inward chuckle...