Word: doored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fantasy became a reality; with your tender kiss you opened the door," croons fantastic Frankie, and goes on to make his listeners believe what he says. A pretty tune...
Next day Ike put in a full morning at his desk, conferred with the seemingly endless parade of officials and friends who beat a track to his door (among the week's visitors: Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, Senator Arthur Watkins, General Omar Bradley). Later, on the golf course at Cherry Hills Club, he swapped pleasantries with Dizzy Dean, and gave Bob Hope an impromptu lesson on how to drive a golf ball. After the comedian had shanked a ball off the fairway, Ike grabbed his driver and cleanly smacked a drive 225 yards down...
...Soviet embassy the Russians asked Ezra Benson and just about anyone else who wanted to come to a glossy farewell reception: "Come, of course. And bring your wife. Just mention your name at the door." For the first time, the silken-draped Russian embassy was opened to TV cameras, and beneath the floodlights Matskevich stood sweating happily among 400 guests. Amid the clatter of good will could be heard snatches of U.S.-Russian conversation: "What is the impression after Geneva . . .?" "I was in the infantry myself . . ." "Maybe music can be the language to draw us closer together...
...World War II; Marjorie is a clear-eyed and warmhearted account of Jewish family life in the 19303. Marjorie is overlong, sometimes graceless, often plodding, but like The Caine, it has a compelling sense of reality, as if the novelist had planted hidden microphones in the house next door and poked a zoomar lens down the chimney...
...dawned bright. After Frank's first performance, the stage door was congested by some squealing young things who wanted his autograph. The crowds grew until, after some weeks, traffic in Times Square was stopped cold by the massed oblation of thousands of wriggling female children. Out came the riot squad, up went the headlines: FIVE THOUSAND GIRLS FIGHT TO GET VIEW OF FRANK SINATRA. A scrawny, wistful little piper had come to town, and the younger generation was following him in far greater numbers and enthusiasm than ever it had shown for the Hamelin original-or for Rudolph Valentino...