Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Teutonic definition totally missed the point. Opening the front door is a purely incidental duty for La Pipelette. She has chores which include leasing apartments, delivering mail, sweeping the halls, and collecting both garbage and rents. She is the voice of conscience and the threat of retribution. She sees everything and understands much. Monsieur, she notices, is taking on weight. La Pipelette has a brother-in-law who is concierge at an establishment where gentlemen's waistlines are held in check by fencing or judo. For a consideration, Madame could make arrangements...
...mass meeting in protest against the wholesale dismissals, without, of course, giving up what the government had given them. Most Parisians will be staunchly on the side of La Pipelette. No matter how the world's affairs turn out, La Pipelette should be kept there, at her glass door, seeing everything...
Have a Chair. The famed Hitchcock chairs, sold from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...
Dickens' first love, hardhearted Maria Beadnell, trampled all over him before she brusquely showed him the door. Three years later, Dickens married Kate Hogarth, whom he completely dominated. Kate bore him ten children and he adored them all, but he gave her small thanks. "My wife," he wrote resentfully to a friend, "is quite well again, after favoring me (I think I could have dispensed with the compliment) with No. 10 . . . I have some idea ... of interceding with the Bishop of London to have a little service in St. Paul's beseeching that I may be considered...
Shercliff attributed the additional show to the large demand for the Winthrop House production. "Scores" were turned away from the door and the Coop box office...