Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better actress than her usual It-girl role would lead you to expect, but in most of her scenes she is not trying to act so much as to suggest, rather over-consciously, how "cute" she is. Best shot: Kay Francis in front of a bedroom door...
...awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially redeemed by one tune, "If You Were Mine" and by a few seconds of Zasu Pitts as a half-witted servant-girl. Typical shots: a drunk caught in a revolving door; Miss Miller's stage father falling off a piano stool...
...eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope and, if the Dutch had speakeasies (which they haven't and thank goodness have no need of) the peephole in the entrance door would be called, like Mr. Rockefeller's retreat, a ''kijkuit." EMILE W. VOUTE...
...Boston, Mrs. James F. Norris, wife of a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entered her home, found the living room topsy-turvy, her husband's bedroom locked. She called police who broke open the bedroom door. On Prof. Norm's bed lay John Broderick, burglar, with an open volume of Shakespeare and two empty quart bottles of 1911 Green River whisky...
...under the glasses, frequently says, "Don't you .know?" in a way that more slangy persons say "Get me?" He smokes157 cigarets, stands before his office in his shirtsleeves, nods to passing stenographers, messenger boys, friends. His office is a "tiny hideout," does not carry his name on its door...