Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures. Pictures that we Americans see and soon forget. Pictures from which our foreign friends form their conception of the average American life. The ordinary picture fan out here sees our fair America-not once, but some fifty or sixty times each year-as a place where every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock transactions are crooked, where each college is just four years of drinking, where each dance is a brawl and each marriage a failure. Is it not possible to export pictures which...
...There can be no doubt that one or more portraits of Ethan were made. He was an astute publicity man and particularly fond of making an impression, wear ing bright uniforms, saying and doing dashing things. He lived in the age of the journeyman painter who rode from door to door with canvases on which the body was already painted so that only the head needed to be added. There must have been a picture of Ethan. It is probably still in existence, hidden away in some obscure attic or barn...
Once famed for its nightly swarm of bums staggering from one swinging door to another, Manhattan's Bowery has been a comparatively sober thoroughfare since Prohibition. The bums have been lounging in speakeasies, drugstores, paintshops where "smoke" (colored, usually poisonous, alcohol) could be purchased for 15? the glass, 50? the pint. Last week the Bowery bums were on the street again, pitifully wandering, finding neither swinging doors nor "holes in the wall...
...Insult to India." Vague though it is, the No. 1 section of the Simon Report slams the door on St. Gandhi's demand for independence now. It declares that the goal of British policy must be: "Progressive realization of responsible government in British India as an integral part of the Empire...
...years the Chinese mint has been abuilding. Except for the Chinese inscriptions over the door it might be mistaken for the Treasury building at Washington. With a capacity of 40,000 coins per hour, it is said to surpass in speed all other mints whatsoever. Thus a rush order for 3,000,000 silver dollars to bribe a Chinese general could be turned out in 75 hours flat...