Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Village, Conn., where the Gordon Quartet had played every summer since 1930. Most of the audience that gathered in the white, green-shuttered concert hall were summer residents in the Connecticut hills. A few suntanned hikers, from the old Appalachian Trail near by, had left their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend...
...sheriff was at the door of '48, "the magazine of the year" (TIME, May 31). Owned cooperatively by 366 writers, photographers and artists, the digest-size monthly had cost its investors $700,000, was $150,000 in the hole. Last week Publisher Walter Ross decided to call it a day at '48½, with the June issue...
With soft determination, a trig young saleswoman edged her way into the half-open front door of a prosperous Hartford, Conn. home. Minutes later, she had sold her first order of "Débutante" cosmetics which The Fuller Brush Co. is adding to its famed house-to-house business...
...oldest son peered through the haze and said: "That looks like Gibbs Hill Lighthouse." It was. As darkness settled down that night, Baruna got her breeze. It was not much more than a breath, but it pushed her slowly through the darkness. By coming in Bermuda's back door before dawn, Baruna had done it again...
...vaulted hall of Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, one day last week, art scholars and critics from all over the world were waiting. Through a tiny oaken door stepped a frail, bearded little man, Bernhard Berenson, the world's greatest authority on Italian Renaissance art. Bobbing and nodding his white beard to the ovation, he hurried, with staccato steps, to the center of a long table. There, Italy's Minister of Education Guido Gonella presented him with two bronze medals, one four centuries old, the other struck especially in his honor. After the minister's speech, cheers...