Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo's daily Al Misr, Columnist Mamoud Abdel Moneim deplored the silly way Egyptian women have been acting ever since Cinemactor Robert Taylor hit town. Moaned Mamoud: "They have found excuses to knock at his door . . . reserve restaurant tables next to his . . . They have been observed making provocative gestures with cigarettes drooping from their lips . . . Will [Robert Taylor] think there are only flighty women in Egypt? Are there no men to keep them in check...
...spent almost all her adult life laboring at her profession in Paris. Though she hobnobbed with the impressionists, the tall spinster never painted a landscape. People offered more of a challenge, she felt. Cassatt was an austere sort alto gether; she once turned John Singer Sargent from her door because he had done such a "dreadful portrait" of her brother Alex...
...church and a drab, red brick building close by London's Berkeley Square. The church is officially called the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the building is headquarters of the English Jesuits, but both together are much better known as Farm Street. Farm Street's back door is the gateway through which pass the more notable British converts to Catholicism...
...price range between the Special and the Super (without such equipment as radio & heater). It is built on the Special's wheelbase (122 in.), but under the hood it has the same 200-h.p. engine as the Roadmaster. It will be available as a station wagon, two-door Riviera and four-door sedan...
...family raving mad. Ah hear his mudder say he must never cross de threshold of her door again...