Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homecoming. If you were told that this picture tells of the return of two soldiers, one married and one unmarried, and how the unmarried one gets home first and goes up the winding stairs to the door which the wife of the other opens for him, you would think of "Enoch Arden" or foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern...
Came a knock at the door of her suite. She opened it. "Are you going to marry him?" chorused the reporters, trigger-fingers quivering on their pencils. Miss Morrow laughed. "Hold that pose!" chorused the cameramen, shaking powder in their flashlight pans...
...this point a door opened and through it strode a tall, heavy man of magnificent carriage, instantly recognizable as John Pierpont Morgan. He was smoking a comfortably big meerschaum pipe, but his visage was not benign. He spoke: "This is an infernal outrage. . . . You fellows get along...
...does happen on occasion that they will run a passenger ragged around the deck. One excitable prima donna one day heard a rap on her door, asked "Who is there?" Came a voice: "It is I." Thoughtlessly she opened the door. In poured the reporters and cameramen from whom she was hiding...
...rattled and swayed as the train jerked slowly out of the station, but the big sergeant standing at the open door balanced himself easily in his thick felt boots...