Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most tentative of the three new ventures, the market research project would provide jobs for students interested in door-to-door work which would lead to openings after graduation. The research will be done for a fire-extinguisher company interested in Cambridge's reactions to the companys' new design. Stone hopes that this first project will lead to others like...
...absence) to star in her first live TV drama. The play that caught Margaret's fancy: Iris, the story of an eligible spinster, aged 31, who refused to rush things with her undependable steady (Ray Montgomery). "Like a cake in the oven," she tells him, "you open the door too soon, you ruin it." In the end, though, Iris bravely chucked the cad when she realized he was not returning her love, only her kisses, and, with what the script called "a fine, quiet steadiness," was called upon to sigh courageously: "I am born again." Though Iris...
...Unto Others. In Sagamore Hills, Ohio, after Mrs. S. S. Zabukovic said she didn't want any and closed the door in his face, a Bible salesman picked up an ax, chopped the door into splinters...
...amber. The final chapter tells of the coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler hat and handed it to mother. He folded his arms, turned to Grabovsky and said: 'Imagine, freedom...
...lover. There was Sinclair Lewis, who sort of absentmindedly squeezed Mary's knee under a Greenwich Village tablecloth. There was a young poet called George Sterling-given to flowing tie and knickerbockers, a great sonneteer after the first 14 lines-who once knocked on Mary's apartment door. "Goddess!" said he, and dropped on one knee...