Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DOOR OF LIFE-Enid Bagnold- Morrow...
...Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical...
...central character of The Door of Life is a middle-aged woman of the upper middle class, who is referred to throughout as "the squire." This in itself is likely to be a little confusing to U. S. readers, who usually think of English squires as ruddy, irascible old gents, more or less akin to Kentucky Colonels. So when they read about the squire picking up her sewing, putting on her evening dress and performing other distinctly feminine duties, their surprise tends to make them miss the point of Miss Bagnold's story. The squire, it turns...
...Holyoke St., next door to the Hygiene Building, the wary observer will notice that something new has been built out of something old. Where was the Big Tree swimming pool, which used to house the Harvard Dramatic Club, is now a modern medical building, with neat, well-furnished offices on both of its two floors...
LONDON -- Adolf Hitler suddenly opened the door to peace today, at almost the exact hour he had set to send his armies smashing into Czechoslovakia, by calling Europe's "big four" to meet in Munich tomorrow for a slowdown between the dictators and the democracies...