Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time," wrote contemplative Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), "is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Recluse Thoreau (Walden, 1854), who lived for 26 months in a spare, do-it-yourself hut (cost: $28.12) in the serene wilderness of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, might have locked his creaky door had he caught a glimpse of the U.S. last week. It was a remarkable sight. In the heat of this midsummer, the nation looked upon time not as a quiet stream but as a bubbling spring from which it might satisfy an endless thirst for motion...
Your article proves just one thing-that our Protestant brethren are rather too timid to enter the Roman Catholic Church through the front door, so they're slipping in quietly through the side door...
...wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve years (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), the still-unfinished, cosmically titled Poor Room-There...
Privileged Sleep. While she died in 1954, aged 81, the people of Paris paid homage at her door for three days. Mistress and archinterpreter of the animal kingdom, she died a revered national institution, yet fulfilling "in every way the wish that she herself had many years before expressed...
...admission will be charged to those presenting Privilege Cards, but tickets for the general public will be sold at the door for 75c each, it has been announced...