Word: doorknobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, with a lump on his ankle as big as a doorknob, heavy-set Henry Wittenberg warily circled a stringy young opponent, suddenly ankle-dragged him to the mat, and nailed him in 6:03. He won two more bouts by falls (in one, he accidentally broke his opponent's leg). In winning the final bout by a decision, against Minnesota's Verne Gagne, Wittenberg got his only black mark...
Repentance. In Philadelphia, an unknown thief crept to Mrs. Joseph Martin's house, tied her $125 cameo locket, stolen eight years ago, to the doorknob with an unsigned explanatory note: "I'm sorry...
...sells almost continually, for the love of it. Last year he traveled some 75,000 miles, calling on stations and sponsors. He made speeches at every other Rotary luncheon he saw (he does a lallapaloosa about a salesman, propped with a worn-out pair of shoes and a doorknob). Every night in bed, Ed reads a copy of every business letter (sometimes there are hundreds) sent out by Mutual to clients and stations that day. Betweentimes, he scribbles away at the MBS Open Circuit, a diary which he gets printed up once a week and circulated to all "Mutualites...
Second Helping. In Dallas, because of a crime wave L. T. Busby craftily hid his bedroom doorknob in the refrigerator, later was amazed to find his door wide open, radio and clothing gone. Reason: hungry burglar...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...