Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saugus cheer. Word of this nefarious plot reached the ears of a group, who, determined that the Fair Name of Harvard hospitality be unsmirched, constituted themselves a reception committee for Herr Hitler's not so loyal opposition. News of this apparently reached the hecklers, for, upon assembling at the door to the dining room, they detached a scout to reconnoiter. The collective and individual size of the committee of public safety so overwhelmed the spy that the protesting assembly, realizing that it would achieve none of the glory that former groups had gained on the steps of learning, disbanded...
...January 1930, Horst Wessel and his mistress, a streetwalker known as Lucie of the Alexanderplatz, took rooms in a boarding house on the Frankfurterstrasse. The landlady, a Communist in good standing, tipped off her friends. That night a group of men tiptoed up to Horst Wessel's door. When the door was opened, a volley of pistol shots cut him down...
...touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with a strand of Magdalen's hair), a door bell going Ting-a-ling-a-ling, an old family servitor, a Southern belle you-alling in crinolines...
...Double Door (Paramount), one of last year's stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
Following closely upon the heels of the news of the closing of the Hemenway Gymnasium comes the news of the abolition of all Junior Varsity sports except football and crew. Although this radical move is laid at the door of schedule difficulties, there is little doubt that the ghost of financial trouble stalks ponderously through the background. The schedule difficulties do not seem insurmountable, for the Jayvee teams, being' generally inferior to the Freshmen, play the majority of their games with the larger academies and high schools, and could hence have interesting and extensive schedules arranged with little difficulty...