Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That such would be the outcome could be surmised as soon as the older members of the heir's family straggled elegantly into a very British drawing-room, each one mouthing some prejudicial reason why no actress should be allowed to scuttle out of the stage door and under the portcullis. When the actress, name of Elsie Hilary, appeared suddenly and without warning in front of this kangaroo tribunal, she had only one defender beside her betrothed scion. This was the Duke of Warrington who, immediately sensing that the actress had every intention of breaking her engagement without encouragement...
...floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst. "Forged!" he leers again...
...magic ("Professor Alonzo, Swindler") and skits ("The Man Who Was Legally Right''). The performers are young friends of Son Collier; they give fictitious names in the programs. Said Son Collier: "I don't act unless I have to. I have enough to do." After locking the door of his theatre, he returned to his schooling at St. Paul's, Concord...
...recent addition to the University in the form of a new gate directly before the door of the Varsity Club on Quincy Street was made possible by the gift of the Class of 1901 in memory of J. W. Hallowell '01, it has been announced at the University offices. The Hallowell gate which is practically completed lies in a direct line with the Dudley gate on the north side of the street and the Varsity Club entrance, Hallowell was for three years a letterman in football, and for four years a member of the Crimson track team. The structure...
...looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair at the opera, she called it a consummation. But when someone came down the passage past her door that night, she thought something more would be in order; so she grabbed a man who turned out to be, not her lieutenant, but the butcher's boy, creeping to a kitchen rendezvous. Soon the balmy girl became a mother. Her uncle dragged the lieutenant toward her, stressing...