Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished Bloop, Bleep last December, but kept it in his pocket until Open the Door Richard had died down, on the theory that the U.S. could not stand two such songs at the same time...
...were condemned to even more secrecy. Gossip columnists searched in vain for signs of them in Mayfair and the West End. Horrid rumors that the whole affair was off circulated among Britain's matchmakers. To see his girl at all, Philip had to slip secretly through a side door of the Palace or arrange clandestine rendezvous through his cousin, the Duchess of Kent. Then, last week, after sounding out his Government and his Dominion Ministers, King George inserted a notice in the Court Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure," it ran, "that the King and Queen announce...
Just before dawn, three grey-hatted gendarmes rapped sharply at the door of a modest Athens villa. Kosta Tsakolos, head of OPLA (Communist execution squad) during the 1944 leftist revolution, opened the door. "Come with us," ordered a policeman. "I am not coming with you," said the terrorist chief. "Under Greek law you cannot make an arrest at a home during the hours of darkness...
...offered her some things he had found. She got angry. She was a hungry woman herself, with mouths to feed. "Listen," she said, "I have no bread to give you. Your things are worthless. You should find better things to do than going around begging." She slammed the door. Erich went away, his treasures clutched in his hand...
...closes, Rosetta invites the three men to her apartment for sandwiches and a nightcap. She and Emble are attracted to each other, and all four, in their alcoholic glow, feel the exciting promise of this union. But when Rosetta returns after seeing Quant and Malin to the door, she finds Emble passed out cold on her bed. The promise of love was an illusion. The poem ends, as it began, in the loneliness and frustration of all four characters, for Auden is preaching a revulsion from all temporal goods, including human love; the only thing to hold...