Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Commission: "In making this statement nothing new is added to the present law of the Church. . . . The present Canon 43 and the Marriage Service of the Church both assume that marriage may be declared null and void. . . . The door for remarriage of divorced persons is by no means thrown wide open. . . . The Commission . . . considers this proposed canon as only tentative, and desires to give it the widest possible publicity for the purpose of invoking discussion and criticism. . . ." Birth Control- As did the Lambeth Conference (Anglican, Episcopal) last year and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ...
Other good details?Wynne Gibson shooting "The Big Feller," gang boss, in the back, throwing in the pistol and locking the door of the room in which The Big Feller is alone with Miss Sidney; the derby hat of a murdered beer-runner, with his gilt initials prominent in the crown, floating down a city river; the closing episode in which the gangsters who were going to take Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney for a ride are themselves taken for a ride. The story is made valid by such details and is no less properly in the Hugo tradition...
...chore was royal, and it was the third which President Doumergue has had to do in as many weeks. First Spain's King Alfonso XIII came to say goodbye, then Albert King of the Belgians, and now Sweden's lank Gustaf V was at the door. All these kings no doubt meant well, but in their gracious goodbyes lurked an unintended sting, as though they said...
Finally Siamese are unaffectedly religious, which is not to say good or goody-goody. Buddhist priests in plain yellow robes go from house to house in the early mornings, stop motionless and silent before each door proffering a bowl. If no food is placed in the bowl the priest moves on. If food is forthcoming, as it nearly everywhere is, he hurries with his bowl to the Buddhist monastery, shares with his fellows, devotes the rest of the morning and the day to religious duties...
Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls, silks, rare carvings, vases, a golden Buddha. The walls are papered with golden Chinese tea-paper. On the floor is a great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer...