Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed. Il Duce's knees would bend perforce to the Muse as he passed through the five-foot door to the sword-hung study where the Poet, in cloth of gold and purple velvet, summons servants garbed like monks from their surrounding "cells." D'Annunzio might permit so distinguished a guest to enter his sacred Adriatic Room, lined with stalls from an abandoned church. He would surely show Il Duce where he spends his days of solitary contemplation, the chamois-lined Chamber of the Leper which it sometimes pleases him to call the Cell of Pure Dreams. Here...
...Alexander made himself Dictator of his country.* For Prime Minister he remembered the man who is said to have opened the door to the palace murderers years before. In 1932. mounting public protest forced King Alexander to remove the hated General Zivkovitch from the Premiership...
Like madmen a guard of cavalry whirled, charged on the screaming crowd. The assassin fell beneath shots and swords. Hit by a stray bullet, General Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia fell mortally wounded. King Alexander lurched half out of his automobile as the aides flung open the door. Horns shrieking, they sped him to the prefecture. There, while surgeons worked desperately over his four wounds, Alexander of Jugoslavia died...
...Bobby" Edwards, son of devout Congregationalist parents, was a clerk with ambitions to be a minister. He became intimate with his next-door neighbor, a telephone operator named Freda McKechnie, whose father worked in the same coal company as Edwards' father. Both families attended the Bethesda Church. Three years ago Bobby Edwards went off to school at East Aurora, N. Y., fell in love with a plain-looking teacher named Margaret Grain. Their unusual romance was revealed to the jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly...
...bewildered confusion of people and scenery cluttered up the stage door. Costumes, sets and backdrops filled the narrow passageway that led backstage. But in the midst of all that confusion was Alexander Kirkland, who is to play the leading role in "Men in White," the opening production of the newly-arrived Theatre Group...