Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bartender to lie down on the floor, keep his mouth shut. Passing down a narrow hall, the pair came to a rear dining room where three other men were seated around a table under an orange light. The two intruders jerked out revolvers, began to blaze away. The door of an adjoining toilet inched open. The gunmen sent one shot through it, turned, ran. The man in the toilet staggered out, made his way up the hall...
...came unexpectedly,' the mother continued. 'That door opened and there he was. We kissed each other for a long time. I asked, "How do you like our new Tiflis?" He said, "Fine." He recalled the past and how we had lived then. I worked out by the day and brought...
...Literary Digest but a draughtsman in his own right. Weeks ago he sent a pen & ink drawing of President Roosevelt to the exhibition of Manhattan's Salmagundi Club, an organization of elderly esthetes. Last week the Salmagundi hanging committee accepted the Leppert drawing, stuck it up behind a door. Rudolph E. Leppert also happens to be a rampant admirer of the New Deal. As he saw it, the Salmagundi Club was guilty of a "slur at the President...
...That fellow Leppert submitted a bad picture and it was not hung prominently simply because it was bad. The fact that it was hung behind the door had absolutely nothing to do with the subject...
...Cummings-Arrow Editions ($3). The practice of bringing a sentimental classic up-to-date usually opens the door tor a display of easy superiority over antique quaintness. The distinction of E. E. Cummmgs' ballet based on Uncle Tom's Cabin is that the poet has accepted completely the elemental seriousness and flowery melodrama of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Ingeniously impressed into four episodes, the first ending with Eliza's escape as she starts across the ice, the last with Tom's magnificent entry into Heaven, the ballet gives a free play...