Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first outward sign of what the President had done was three figures leaving a private door of the Treasury Department early in the morning. A thick grey mist enfolded them as they entered the ceremonial East Gate of the White House grounds. Walking through the rolling South Grounds, they skirted the back of the White House and entered the executive offices by a rear door used only by the President himself. It was 8:45 a. m. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon?for he was one of the three?removed his coat without aid (none of the White House staff...
After midnight one night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
Fortnight ago, ushers at the Harvard-Dartmouth football game impounded a dozen gate-crashing moppets in a wire cage beneath the Soldiers Field stadium. Tiresome children! Lock them...
Football is not the simple sport that it used to be. An intersectional game today involves special trains, hide-outs for pre-game rest, newspaper reporters and front page publicity. A too well traveled team smacks highly of advertising and of gate receipts. But like all good things, there is safety in moderation. The fanfare and beating of drums in Ann Arbor today reflects the spirit-of youth; out for the conquest of football foes and the winning of new friends...
...paid coach, the gate receipts, the special training tables, the costly sweaters and extensive journeys in special Pullman cars, the recruiting from the high school, the demoralizing publicity showered on the players, the devotion of an undue proportion of time to training, the devices for putting a desirable athlete, but a weak scholar, across the hurdles of the examinations-these ought to stop and the intercollege and intramural sports be Drought back to a stage in which they can be enjoyed by large numbers of students and where they do not involve an expenditure of time and money wholly...