Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called because brimstone was stored in the basement of the Park Street Church in 1812, is the windiest spot in the City. It seems one day the Devil and the Wind were making merry on Tremont Street, blowing dresses and parasols, when suddenly the Devil saw the open church door. "They need me in there," quoth he; "wait here." So the Devil went inside the church and never came out again. And that is why to this day the Wind, faithful to its evil friend, still blusters around Brimstone Corner and Old Granary...
Next day I got ready to accompany a group of "have-money people" on a flight from Peiping to Shanghai. Under the curved roof of a windowless Quonset hut at Peiping airfield, 40 people huddled in the dim light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed...
...Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin was taking it easy. The island's first elected governor had shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
...scene showed how not-so-puritanical New Englanders used to carry on in foreign ports. Entitled Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, it was painted in 1758 by a footloose portraitist named John Greenwood (who put himself in the picture, holding a candle at the door), and was recently bought by the City Art Museum of St. Louis for $8,500. Done in the days when most U.S. painters contented themselves with fashioning idealized portraits of the rich, it is, crowed Museum Director Perry T. Rathbone, "virtually the only painting by an American artist depicting everyday life in the 18th Century...
Admission tonight is free, but memberships on sale at the door will admit students to a series of closed concerts for members only...