Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Front Door...
Then the young lady hurried off. Half an hour later the doorbell rang and Mr. Jurney decided to answer it himself. At the door was a U. S. deputy marshal who read him a writ of habeas corpus ordering him to present his prisoner in court on Monday morning. Mr. Jurney protested he had no prisoner but would appear in court on Monday morning. Then arrived other visitors: newshawks, photographers...
...have been implicated in graft is very small although it looms large in the public's mind. It may be my own fault. . . . I may have made a mistake in kicking a lot of this stuff outdoors. But I don't like it when people . . . finagle around the back door...
Sombre mahogany panelled walls, dark red plush hangings, massive carved doors, yellow tapers flickering before two bronze urns set in niches of the wall--the sitting room of the Van Bret mansion of Fifth Avenue in 1910; in this atmosphere, and as an integral part of it, appears Victoria Van Bret; guardian of the Van Bret millions, tyrant of the Van Bret household. Around the commanding presence and warped soul of this queenly spinster revolves a tense drama of hate and fear, swelling in an unvarying crescendo of emotional strain to a brilliant climax in the last scene. "Double Door...
...will, has gained complete domination over her younger sister and still younger brother. When the last male representative of the line marries a nurse, Victoria determines to break up the marriage and force him into espousal of a girl of his own class. She fails, but magnificently. The "double door," concealing a secret sound proof chamber, is first her weapon and last her undoing, but always the force shaping her destiny and her family...