Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...Agnes de Mille doesn't dance often, but when she does, her mixture of classical precision and homegrown humor sets balletomanes cheering. As the nation's top choreographer, she is usually too busy doing other things. By bringing ballet to Broadway, she thinks, she has "opened the door for dancing" in the U.S. Sometimes she suspects she has opened the door too far: she has already seen too much imitation De Mille on Broadway. Says Agnes: "It's shocking...
...each other, they raced through the crowd of commuters on the platform and loped down the stairway at the north end, two steps at a time. Nearly 40 of them squeezed into the first bus with the other passengers for Mamaroneck Avenue; those in back jammed open the rear door so that three more could slip in. The bus driver slid from his seat, ran back and plucked out the culprits like so many ripe peaches...
Despite the extra help, however, the Coop lines yesterday curled out the door, up Palmer at to Boylston st., and then doubled back...
...Young Republicans are reconciled behind Dowey, and have an ambitious fall program lined up which includes a large variety of campaigning methods. Motorized speaking caravans, door-to-door canvassing with special emphasis on Representative Christian Herter's district, and weekly rallies featuring such speakers as National Committeeman Sinclair Weeks, Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon are the highlights of this program...