Word: doorless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Company K was a sardonic minor masterpiece of World War I-a painful punishment drill in the doorless barracks of total recall. Its author, William March, died two years ago at 60. almost unregarded-before his Bad Seed, a tale designed to prove that even children may have murder in their hearts, became a bestseller and a Broadway hit. Now TV's Alistair Cooke, U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, with a governess' concern to see that U.S. cultural toddlers are cozily wrapped, undertakes the task of explaining March to American readers. Cooke makes a sound observation: March...
...LIEUT. JAMES L. STANLEY of Decatur, Ga.: "He was stood at attention for five hours at a time; confined eight days in a doorless cell less than six feet long; held to the ground by two guards while a third kicked and slapped him; stood at attention 22 hours until he fell, then hit while lying down with the side of a hatchet . . . interrogated for three hours with a spotlight six inches from his face, ordered to confess while a pistol was held at the back of his head; placed under a roof drain all night during a rainstorm; left...
...term, and stayed at the school 38 years, the last 17 as headmaster. All six Greene children were born in Berkhamsted; Graham was the fourth. He hated the town, but not as much as he hated the school, with its harsh stone steps, its plain pine desks, the doorless cupboards with rows of dirty gym shoes, the ugly communal washbasins...
...Uncle John himself was just the same, still striding into his doorless office at 7:30 a.m. to get ready for his callers, still plumping loudly for bigger & better Michigan State teams ("I see no harm at all in a big stadium, big field house, and big crowds . . ."), still puttering about his two-acre truck garden when he can find the time. He had some additional building ideas too. With the new dormitory finished, he was pestering the state legislature to get $3,000,000 for a new library...