Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goodbye. I can't accompany you to the door, the doctors would be angry. It's my legs you know. Tell those fellows in the courtyard to go to hell...
...running a spool of film through a polishing machine. Something went wrong with the machine. A spark flew from a whirling gear and set the film on fire. A few seconds later every film in the room was on fire. Burning gas exploded and blew out the door, the flame rushed into other rooms. People staggered out of blazing doorways. Some were taken away in ambulances. One man died of his burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side...
...fire. About $2,000,000 worth of prints made from the stored negatives were burned up, but that was all. Assured that burning cinema film breeds no such dreadful gases as X-ray negatives did in the Cleveland Clinic last spring (TIME, May 27), searchers opened the hot door, entered the vaults, found the vintages of romance, adventure and claptrap, safe on their racks...
...English. Thousands of U. S. citizens saw it in Manhattan a decade ago, many went two and three times. Frank McGlynn still looks like Lincoln, makes him a compassionate and credible figure from his rustic days at law until the dark moment when John Wilkes Booth creeps toward the door of the red-plush Presidential...
...choruses from "Ruddigore", Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, are out standing on the program of the Harvard Glee Club under the direction of A. T. Davison '05, which also includes the "Drake's Dream" of S. Coleridge-Taylor, Brahms' "Marching", two Russian folk songs, "Fireflies" and "At Father's Door", and Harvard football songs...