Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convicts ran out into the rotunda, shooting down a guard as they ran, firing shots at the warden and his deputy. As the warden ran to sound the alarm they cornered a turnkey, took the keys to the buildings, headed for the main gate. Before they reached it the alarms began to go off and guards closed in on them. They swerved, rushed into a factory building, held up two guards, and keeping the guards and 30 other prisoners as hostages, locked themselves in the third floor of the building. There they prepared to fight...
...that 31st day of January, which I remember as if it were yesterday. I had gone afoot to Hofburg [the Palace in Vienna] contrary to custom, having been ordered to present myself at 11 o'clock to read aloud to the Emperor and Empress. At the gate I saw to my horror, knowing the habits of the Emperor, for whom punctuality meant arriving a quarter of an hour ahead of time, that it was already five minutes past...
...company into the business of making balloons. Yet he never lost his love of salt water. He makes an ocean voyage at least once a year, keeps a summer home at Plymouth, Mass. His spacious estate in Akron's smart West Hill section is named "Anchorage." The gate is flanked by two great anchors; the rooms are filled with many a marine trophy. But the weathervane on his flagpole and the firescreen in his living room are in the form of Zeppelins. Conversely, most of the Goodyear blimps were named for a yacht which has defended the America...
...enormous outstretched arm which promises to be a great convenience to Polish pigeons. Mrs. Wilson, Poland's President Ignacy Moscicki, U. S. Ambassador John North Willys, Auguste Cardinal Hlond, Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Mannes Baruch and Daughter Belle piled wreaths about Statue Wilson's ankles. Out by the gate was a smaller bust of Democrat Wilson's faithful lieutenant Herbert Clark Hoover. President Hoover, now unalterably Republican, sent a message: "It has been my own good fortune to visit Poland. It has been my good fortune to meet the illustrious citizen to whose inspiration this gathering...
...drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample: "Death is a black camel who kneels unbidden at the gate of every man"), suitable rebukes to an overenthusiastic assistant, and three narrow escapes which do not cause him to modify his placid nonchalance, Detective Chan reveals the guilty suspect, explains the actions of the others...