Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With basketball just admitted to the ranks of the major sports and with swimming knocking hard at the door, the question inevitably comes up as to what the criteria for major sports really are. For if a game like basketball, which is played indoors before a relatively small band of rooters, is to merit the award that is given to football, which thousands gather to witness, or crew, for which a half of Wall Street goes on a regular Roman holiday, clearly some other consideration than the excitements and the crowds seems to govern the selection of sports...
...that changed our whole outlook toward the Harvard teaching corps, and we realized for the first time that the heart of the teaching staff is in the right place after all. For walking through the corridors of one of the Houses, we came upon a notice tacked to the door of the office, a tutor's notice that filled us with the peace that passes understanding almost...
...handing in study cards, and many a procrastinative student spent the afternoon rushing around the college like scared mice looking for their tutors to countersign cards before the five o'clock deadline. But the tutor in question is a humanist, and this was the notice on his door...
...days afterwards. It makes Pop misplace his glasses just fifteen minutes before the first band swings past Lexcord Green; Sally must have her face washed twice as a double protection against dirt; and Ma thinks, as the car turns the corner, that she didn't close the icebox door. For the neighbors know how long all the bands between Framingham and Lowell have been eking practice sounds out of trumpets, drums, bass horns, and still worse horns. Uniforms have been brushed free of winter dust, and as they form a marching line, how spry are the limbs and voices...
...with word that the Conqueror has landed on the nearby shore. The priests tell the people that their gods will protect them. A liberal statesman (Actor Meredith) counsels nonresistance. Before the people can make up their minds what to do, the Conqueror is among them, "broad as a brass door: a hard hero: heavy of heel on the brick." Only the announcer sees that there is nothing inside the armor at all. The People are prostrate. Only the Announcer knows that the People invent their oppressors...