Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London stage-door Johnny, picking up an American actress, along with her glove, offends her Broadway pride, but persuades her to marry him, contrary to parental ambitions. Some months later, he leaves his poor but pregnant wife to seek, aid from home; his father refuses to give in, and he commits suicide. The child is abducted by the relentless grandparent. The expected meeting with his mother takes place in a French house of ill-repute, during the war, where her clean life has finally rewarded her with the job of madame. The worldly-wise young soldier reforms, when he learns...
...comforting and consolatory. It is the only genius I have ever had but it has been enough, and these pages are given to recording its progress." Her own account, however, makes herself out an unextraordinary only child. Her parents got along badly. Her father used to slam the front door so much, in fact, that her mother finally attached a harplike arrangement to it which transmuted a bang into gently dying tinkles. Things Authoress Luhan remembers : that a servant-girl first (unconsciously) aroused her sexually; that the boys & girls of her set kept notebooks, with preferred ratings of the opposite...
...Holy Door. A brilliant floodlight filled one corner of great St. Peter's one night last week. A small train of prelates approached, led by the Very Rev. Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, plump Master of the Papal Household, a favorite of Pius XI and, it is believed, one of the two cardinals secretly nominated at last month's consistory (TIME, March 20)- secretly because, certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen...
This Sunday Pius XI will re-open the Holy Door, while Cardinals do likewise at the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major, St. Paul-without-the-Walls. In solemn, robed procession the Pope will move from the Vatican to the front portico of St. Peter's. Thrice he will knock, with a golden hammer, on the Holy Door. Within, Sanpietrini (St. Peter's workmen) will lower the door away. The Pope will pray while prelates sprinkle the aperture with holy water. Then all will enter, kissing the jambs as they pass. Thereafter the public may enter...
...heart of things, which might have to be closed-in from the wet and cold of the New England winter, but which, in spring, would expand luxuriously onto the sidewalk with its tables and chairs. To achieve the most pleasant contrast, he hopes it would be located next door to some particularly staid establishment, like the Harvard Trust. For those who want beverage without food, however, he has planned his piece de resistance. This is to be a combination of the best features of the English pub or alehouse, and the tavern. Since this would be a vital part...