Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This position made economic, political and moral sense. The hope of the Marshall Plan had made it possible. Now that the disruptive Communist drive in France was checked, the door to a stable future for Europe was open. Russia could not close it by deadlocking the London Conference...
British Labor party leaders let out an explosive breath last week. They had squeaked through a parliamentary by-election at Gravesend. Party Boss Herbert Morrison sent the victor a jubilant telegram: "We will open the door, Richard, when you come to the House...
...door makes no noise as you close it after you and step out on the sidewalk. A heavy rain is falling silently. Five o'clock traffic is jamming the street; people are crowding past you, but you hear no sound. Newsboys in front of the building are arguing angrily over something, but you can only see the exaggerated movement of their lips as they shout at each other. ... Everything moves with the unreality of pantomime...
Crepe & Cardinals. Sam Breadon was not a shaky character. Back in 1926, when he calmly traded off Rogers Hornsby, the hero who won the first World Series St. Louis ever had, riotous fans hung crepe on Sam's office door, jumped on the running board of his car to shout insults. Sam's chilly blue eyes never flickered. He crossed up the fans again when he peddled off the great Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes...
Through such prestige films as Henry V and Brief Encounter, British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank got a size ten foot in the door of the world movie market. But last week, as Hollywood had long predicted, Rank was preparing to sacrifice quality for quantity and go after the U.S. market with mass production...