Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monkeys, 6 horses, 5 trainers (whom he had put on his payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms had to be set up outside the tent to hold the entertainers who offered free assistance. This week, among a jampacked, wildly cheering...
...orange juice and water), his financial backer, rich Air Conditioner Reuben Trane (who had 3,000 autographed golf balls handed out en route advertising his business), his good-natured better, fat Fred Tuerk-all made merry on Broadway, Super Marathoner Ferebee went to bed, put a sign on his door: "Don't open until Christmas...
Copies of the Alumni Bulletin and University Gazette arrive at the House weekly, and on the promise of this correspondent, the CRIMSON will join them shortly on the huge oak table in the center of the heavy-beamed front door...
...Veritas" motte outside, who are amazed to find their father's names in the Harvard Book. Some, she declares, have even found their grandfathers' signatures. The day this correspondent visited the House, business was rather slack, so he and Mrs. Pplow opened the top part of the front door and engaged in a loud conversation regarding the fact that the House was University property, in the cans outside might be tempted in. Northing but a small Yale man clad in shorts and a huge knapsack was drawn. however...
Aside from a few bright glimpses of the children and constant troubles with the help, these reflections make up most of The Door of Life. Although the. squire bears a healthy son without too much trouble, there is such confusion downstairs -the cook leaves because she cannot stand childbirth, another turns out to be immoral, the butler hates women, his substitute is a drunk and a maid is discharged for theft-that readers are likely to forget that Author Bagnold is picturing the fortitude of English mothers, not the corruption of English domestics...