Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business daring." No other important Parisian had ever dared sell retail in Manhattan in competition with stores like Saks-Fifth Avenue which bought from him wholesale in Paris. The sort of ladies who made up M. Rochas' customers babbled incoherently of his sleek hair and out-of-door complexion. Last week the ladies were back buying at Saks-Fifth Avenue and talking of somebody else's outdoor complexion, and again there was no branch of an important Paris dressmaker in Manhattan...
Going out the door, a Group I man said: "It was a snap." And everyone went home happy...
...fourth floor. According to his story he went into the stacks first. Finding only the low 400's there, he went upstairs, and there found the 500's. Downstairs again, he weaved through the rows of books until he found himself standing face to face with the door of the office he was looking for, except that there was a sturdy iron fence in between...
...elevator was in use, so he walked up one flight. On the second floor the red light went out so he pushed the button and the machine started up again, but just as he was about to open the door it started up a second time. Someone above had beat him to it. But little did either of them know that the professor who had decided not to wait and was trying to get out was still imprisoned in the elevator. The student found that out when he craftily pulled open the door as the elevator went down past...
...Vagabond started. He knew he hadn't seen her come in the door. Breezed in? He glanced at the open window with suspicion. A faded drape undulated langurously. Could she--no, girls don't drift through windows, he reminded himself. Not at Harvard...