Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhazes, famed Arabian clinician of the 9th Century, used successful if violent psychology in treating neurotic patients. He once placed a rich man, who was crippled by rheumatism, in a hot bath. Then, leaving a saddled horse at the front door, he grasped a sharp knife, brandished it in his patient's face and reviled him. Infuriated, the man leaped out of his bath, while Rhazes fled to his horse. The patient was cured, but Rhazes never returned...
...Harry James in a battle of swing at the Roseland tomorrow, and Basie at the Southland . . . Not generally known, but still true is the Anglo-Saxon word for music: "swin(g)" . . . Word slips through from New York that Teddy Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though a mixed band may have...
...Damaso Court, near dusk, a bell clanged. Swiss Guards with flickering torches bustled through the corridors of the Vatican, looking for unauthorized intruders. "Extra Omnes!" cried a dozen masters of ceremonies-"Everybody out!" The heavy bronze door of San Damaso creaked shut. Six keys clicked in its locks, three on the inside turned by the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, three on the outside by Prince-Marshal Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere. The papal flag was hauled down, the silken banner of the Chigi family hoisted in its stead. The conclave of 62 Princes of the Church, immured...
...OPENED THE DOOR OF JAPAN-Carl Crow-Harper...
Commodore Perry got his foot in, but it was Townsend Harris who opened the door of Japan wide enough to let the traders in. Who Townsend Harris was, few U. S. citizens know. But he is a hero in Japan; his two residences-the consulate at Shimoda and the legation at Tokyo are preserved as shrines. The first U. S. Consul General to Japan, Townsend Harris in 1858 negotiated the first effective commercial treaty between the U. S. and Japan-a feat which historians have ranked with the world's leading diplomatic successes...