Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gloomy, Gothic grandeur of Westminster Abbey, Britain's most hallowed shrine, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee stepped up to a simple wrought-iron stand and drew back an American flag from a shallow niche beside the west door. They uncovered a three-foot-high marble tablet, crowned with an American eagle and inscribed...
...Roosevelt's plaque shares the wall by the west door with a statue of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, 1666-1732; a statue to William Pitt the Younger; a memorial to Jeremiah Horrocks, d. 1641 (who "detected the long inequality in the mean motion of Jupiter and Saturn"), and one to the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury...
...Time, Gentlemen." From time to time a flurry of speculation ran through the watchers like autumn leaves in a gust. On Friday night there was a moment of letdown when Princess Elizabeth herself stepped out of the palace door and drove off with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
...when Freddie presented himself with a couple of friends at the club's dressing room door, he was sternly rebuffed. "You can't come in," snarled an attendant. Freddie was nonplussed. While he and Denis held their reunion at the foot of the steps of the pavilion entrance, George Mann, M.C.C. captain, protested vigorously to the South Africans. Club Secretary Walter Mars was adamant. "I have no objection to professional boxers as a class," he said later, "but I had only to take one look at Mills and his friends to realize they are not the type...
Summing up her impact on London (1923-31), Socialite Columnist Charles Graves says: "She popularized smoking in the days when few nice girls smoked. She killed the stage-door Johnny-he couldn't get through the hundreds of girls outside the stage door . . . She popularized the words 'divine' and 'darling' and bacchanalian parties...