Word: knockers
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After the repast the little gathering went upstairs. They must show the Vagabond a dormitory room. On the way one of the number knocked at a door. "Get the hell out, I'm studying," was the shocking answer. A think grimace was pasted on the lips of the knocker. They would have revenge. Two Victrolas were commandeered and set to playing on the door stoop--"Something To Remember Me By." Then a few fire crackers were shot off to give the thing a tinge of reality. The scoundrels slunk off to their rooms to study...
...Knocker...
...familiar, "Nonsense. Our laboratory experts have discovered that there is nothing better to eat at one o'clock on Thursdays." Finally the newcomer is told that his unit is his club and that if he doesn't like the people in it he is merely proving himself a knocker instead of a booster as it is his duty...
...Premier, ensconced behind the well polished brass knocker of his official residence, summoned Chancellor Churchill for a conference. Up to last week Mr. Baldwin had taken the attitude that the miners and owners would now have to settle their differences among themselves. Having conferred with Mr. Churchill however, Premier Baldwin followed up the avenue opened by the Chancellor to the extent of calling representatives of both the miners and owners to confer again with the Government...
...night a Scotland Yard detective watches a plain brass knocker and the neatly engraved doorplate which bears the legend "No. 10" and marks the extremely modest Downing Street town-house of the British Prime Minister. There that exuberant countryman, Premier Stanley Baldwin, seems always a trifle like a ruddy-faced squire come up to London for perhaps the fifth or sixth time in his life...