Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain raiser, there is, for some reason or other, Alfred de Musset's A Door Must Be Open Or Shut, a one act play of trivial epigram and some humor, featuring the well-developed acting of Leslie Cass as a teasing and flirting Marquise. Joseph Mitchell plays a droll, glib Count with too much seriousness, and in too much of a hurry, leaving any timing up to the capable Miss Cass. The program notwithstanding, there was no indication that the play had a director, both Miss Cass and Mitchell fending--and fairly well--for themselves...
...attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. At the same time, he worked for Massachusetts Senator David Walsh on tariff matters, doing much of the spadework on the famed Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The next year he joined Aluminum Co. of America, among other jobs was a door-to-door salesman in Los Angeles before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust charges in 1937. He joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association in 1939 and rose to managing director. Romney became good friends with George Mason, then president of the A.M.A. When Mason...
...book, and which make hair-raising reading in 1954.) The author of Yenching's famous motto, "Freedom Through Truth for Service," accepted this last, fateful call to service. Thereafter, by one of history's harsh ironies, Missionary Stuart served as chief U.S. representative while China's door was slammed shut and "all that I had previously accomplished in the country . . . was apparently being destroyed...
...when China was still the great country of the open door, Leighton Stuart had long personified the U.S. tradition of humanitarian service in China. From boyhood as a missionary's son under the Manchus down to wartime imprisonment by the Japanese, he had shared the tumultuous experiences of the nation's modern awakening. As founder and president of Peking's Yenching University, the greatest of China's Christian colleges, he had won the affection and trust of a generation of rising Chinese leaders...
...Well, goodbye," she said, "I hope everything works out for you." She flashed a wan smile of encouragement, then tenderly, as the slipped out the door, she placed her broomstick in the corner. "You need it more than...