Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...festive. Orange banners flew from every peaked rooftop and festooned the walls of theaters and office buildings. Orange ties and orange ribbons decked every citizen, and orange lights glittered along every road. When the sun broke through chill August clouds the Dutch said: "Het oranje zonnetje komt altijd door" (The little orange sun always comes through). As the city's population swelled from a normal 800,000 to twice that number, hotelkeepers flung mattresses in bathtubs and police considered putting deck chairs on hundreds of boats. By day and by night, barrel organs and miniature calliopes, from...
That was somewhat unfair to the late Prince Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, Juliana's father, of whom the Princess was very fond. Prince Henry was far more tolerant than Wilhelmina. Once, Juliana was secretly smoking with several ladies-in-waiting when the door was thrown open imperiously. Aghast, the girls expected to see Wilhelmina. But when it turned out to be Juliana's father, she ran to embrace him, crying: "It's only Mecklenburg...
...going to quit? He would not say yes, he would not say no. But his eyes were obviously on the door...
...Nizam prefers to receive rather than give. To his last birthday party he invited 1,156 Hyderabadis to dinner. Each one paid, according to the established custom, a door fee in gold and silver worth $50. The total take, $57,800, would pay his personal food bill for 395 years. Says his caterer, who was once maitre d'hotel at London's Grosvenor House: "The food he consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary...
...night long they banged at the door of Mrs. Emerald McNeil, a deputy recorder, for prospectors' licenses and numbered aluminum tags to nail on their stake posts. For two days she did a land-office business, then ran out of tags. By then the first prospectors were back trying to get their claims registered...