Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...written to Charles Summer in March, 1842, in which Dickens says, "I miss Felton sadly. Half the pleasure of my world, as Charles Lamb says, has gone with him. I would give, I hardly know what I would not give, to have him at No 1 Devonshire Terrace, York gate, Regents Park, London; for I have a sincere affection...
When the alarm reached the prison gate, aged Gatekeeper Charles Gilles died of heart failure. The 1,800 inmates of another Folsom cellhouse were locked in their cells be fore they knew what had happened. In the rioters' building, yells and commotion arose as the messhall and library were barricaded against siege...
Above an open window in a house near the Kremlin Gate that still bears the name of Trotsky there stretched a large red streamer in the centre of which was a large picture of L. D. Trotsky himself. Matters grew serious when at the open window there appeared the head of Trotsky in the flesh, not to mention the head of his brother-in-law, Leo Borisovitch Kam-ener. Some of the crowd jeered, others cheered. Then something attracted their attention...
...singing of the International, which was taken up by the miles of parading populace. Simultaneously, the Kremlin*guns roared salvos of blank shells for six minutes, their blue smoke spiraling upwards around the pinnacles of St. Basil's Church and over the tower of the Spasski Gate...
...first story, "The Undefeated," tells of a pathetic, broken-down toreador. In "Fifty Grand," which lately brightened the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, there is a brutal convincing picture of the prize-ring in these days of the million dollar gate...