Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back door of Greece opens on the mountainous Balkan hinterland, its front door on the Mediterranean. By the sea, greatness as well as grief have come to Greece. Three weeks ago from the sea, from Greece's greatest island. Crete, came Revolution, led by that greatest of modern Greeks, sly, old Eleutherios Venizelos, against the "Balkan policy" and the monarchist intrigues of Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris...
...Vagabond puts on his hat and coat and slams gaily out of his room. He lights a pipe and strolls out along the parkway and up towards the Square. Sounds of revelry arrest him as he passes a pub on Mt. Auburn Street. He pokes his head in the door. Waves of noise beat him back, but a warm blue sign over the bar lures...
...pumping, heating and purifying system with a capacity of 1000 gallons an hour, was pronounced by Ann Pennington, who dedicated it, do be the finest private pool in which she had ever swam. The House also has six of the a squash courts in the University building next door reserved for the exclusive use of House members...
...long time whispering. At intervals, in the pale light, their faces fused. His the eager artist's, burning with creation; her's with a strange detachment--one day to be immortalized in pigment. At last they moved apart and then stole quickly down the garden path to a door in the old wall. The man opened it, the woman stopped through. He followed her, pulling the door behind him without turning. Over the garden wall, borne back on the fragrant darkness of the night wind, drifted the sensuous laughter of the lovers...
Followed by five shabby, placarded cronies from Greenwich Village, Novelist-Poet Maxwell Bodenheim (Georgia May, Ninth Avenue, Naked on Roller Skates) marched to a downtown Manhattan relief agency. At the door the five followers deployed, picketed, raised their placards: "Starvation Standards of Home Relief Make Real Ghost Writers." Real Ghost Writer Bodenheim, pale, unshaven and muss-haired, stormed inside, announced that he was "on the brink of starvation." He had applied for relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said...