Word: disturbes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audibly coaching Hunter from the sidelines. So annoying did this become that the tournament committee asked him to leave the enclosure. Then Tilden declined to play his match with John Van Ryn until the Doeg-Hunter contest was over, explaining that the applause (for Tilden) of the spectators might disturb Hunter. The committee hesitated. If Tilden were crossed too often he might leave the tournament, jeopardizing its financial success. But Dr. Philip B. Hawk, acting referee in the absence of President Louis B. Dailey of the U. S. L. T. A., telephoned his chief for authority to act alone. Then...
...town is like a hospital campus. No street cars break the quiet; no clanging noises disturb the peace. Silent busses slip about the streets. No factory whistles shriek. It is a town of healing, charity, repose...
...rather tired of running, standing, eating 24 eggs a day, sleeping in theatres during midnight matinees, and awaking next morning for another 50 mile run. The first day after the contest is ended I'll put a sign on my door 'Don't Disturb. Sleeping by day for first time in three years...
...sedate is New York's Century Association that its officers once prohibited bridge games in its austere clubhouse (43rd Street just west of Fifth Avenue) lest the muffled excitement of such play disturb the tranquillity of other members. Organized by William Cullen Bryant in 1847 to promote "the advancement of art and literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson...
...Locked Door (United Artists). When you discover that the door in question was distinguished from other doors on the corridor by the words "Do Not Disturb" you will realize, if you have not already learned it from the masthead, that this piece is an adaptation of "The Sign On the Door," a melodrama that has been aliment for road-shows for a decade or two. It is a problem play, the chief problem for skeptical spectators being whether or not the door of an ordinary hotel-apartment can be locked from the outside so that the person inside cannot...