Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change of prima donnas changed the Met's backstage atmosphere. When she wasn't on stage, Flagstad had knitted quietly in the wings, avoided visitors. Traubel opened the door of her dingy little dressing room to anyone who could crowd inside. Her laughter boomed so lustily that stage managers feared it could be heard in the auditorium. In the old horse-&-buggy era, Wagnerian divas like Johanna Gadski and Lillian Nordica had expected even the stagehands to wait on them. Traubel insists on putting on her own makeup, wig and costumes, because "being dependent is a luxury...
...never read books. I read myself out as a child. I started with Horatio Alger and went right through the Rover Boys.") And as a boy he got the idea that he would like to be a professional talker. "I dreamed about my name on an office door," he recalls. "Ted Husing, Commentator." After batting around in a dozen jobs, from carnival shill to real estate, Ted saw his dream come true. In 1924 he was hired as one of WJZ's first full-time announcers. He has been talking ever since...
...purple robes and scarlet, the dignitaries paced, in academic route step, up to the door. At the big moment King George put the silver key in the lock and turned; the key snapped in his hands...
...took a hurried heaving of academic shoulders to force the door open, and thus to dedicate Oxford's $4,000,000 New Bodleian Library. The old Bodleian, which started in Shakespeare's day, was once the biggest library in the Empire, is still among the world's top 15 (an estimated 1,500,000 books). The bulging Bodleian long ago overflowed into nearby buildings and vaults; the Copyright Act entitles it to a copy of every new work published within the United Kingdom. Largely paid for by Rockefeller Foundation money, the new annex has space for five...
...Beatrix Potter, and that she had come among them from London, where she had written books for children. But they also recalled that anyone who had dared to speak the name of Potter-to say nothing of Peter Rabbit-in the presence of Mrs. Heelis had been shown the door with "stupefying rudeness...