Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cooper Union. That this fusty building near the rear door of Wanamaker's department store houses a public museum is unknown to many New Yorkers. That it contains many of the most important drawings and paintings of Winslow Homer and his contemporaries is unsuspected by more...
Play. Play-of-the-year, according to the Pulitzer pickers, was You Can't Take It With You, a genial, highly professional piece of playwrighting by George S. Kaufman (Merrily We Roll Along, Stage Door), and Moss Hart (Once In A Lifetime, Jubilee) (TIME, Dec. 28). Sombre-eyed, successful Mr. Kaufman was in on the 1932 award for his part in Of Thee I Sing...
...first appearance. Readers got 66 pages in rotogravure of photographs intended to raise the reader's hair, hackles or eyebrows. Most appalling shot: the corpse of a New York sneak-thief who garroted himself when he stumbled and was caught by the neck in a trap door...
...cause of the disaster remains in doubt. Smoking was permitted in an asbestos lined smoking room, at the door of which a steward always stood to watch outgoing passengers. But the fire apparently started in the stern, indicating the possibility of a short circuit. Since the ship only contained helium near the passenger's compartment, all the rest being hydrogen, any fire would be impossible to control. The ship had passed through an electrical storm over New York...
...felicitation from every corner of the University were flying yesterday to the Massachusetts Avenue headquarters of a certain well-known figure in the educational world. The grievous mistake of a group of serenaders who had the brass to parade before said headquarters singing "There's no wolf around my door" has been brought to light with startling vividness with the announcement that there are now three Wolffs and an orang outang to assist delinquent students over the scholastic bumps. Whether the latest addition to Clan Wolff will be tutored by his playmate Peter or whether he will cast aside...