Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daughter-and the only child whose name was not duplicated in Chorlton. Word of the slip got to Emily, the Chorlton wife. Emily sent her eldest son to follow his father when he left home, and before William knew it, there was Emily, his Chorlton wife, knocking at the door of his Ancoats home. William was puttering about the kitchen when Elsie, his Ancoats wife, answered the knock. "Can I see William, my husband?" said Emily to Elsie. "William," answered Elsie, "is my husband...
...suitcase beside the bed. Before he is dressed, cars come honking down a narrow street usually disturbed only by the clump of a cart or a delivery boy's whistle, and men in leather coats and caps, or in ill-fitting tradesmen's suits, knock on the door of the big red brick house. A grocer who is now a Deputy of France lets them in, where they find their leader munching on a breakfast of bread and a tangerine...
...only damage suffered by the University was the breaking of a quarter-inch thick plate of glass in the front door of the Widener Library. The full-size pane broke at about 9:15 p.m., as the wind blew the swinging door shut after a reader entered the building. No one was injured...
...conference began, the President ended the suspense of the historic second-term question. But correspondents had to wait another 15 minutes before they could get the news out. Then the U.P.'s Merriman Smith uttered the conference-ending words ("Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough...
Desirable Dames. What Bride's viewers see is a mishmash of kittenish domestic humor. Spring Byington lives with her daughter and son-in-law (Frances Rafferty and Dean Miller); a next-door neighbor, Pete Porter, adds a welcome touch of acid as a wisecracking foe of mothers-in-law, and Verna Felton plays a low-comedy crony of Spring's. Verna recently had a bit part in the movie Picnic, and when the film was on location in Kansas she got more attention from the natives than all the rest of the company. Director Joshua Logan was perplexed...