Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions: "What did he do for us? If he had not lived and behaved so, wherein would our life be different?" And such profit and loss statements have their absorbing interest, even if their appearance may be a sign that humanity sees the sheriff approaching to seal up the door...
...children, and owner of a private library of 30,000 volumes, grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs...
...went back to his Los Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...
...corrupted as an innocent child; visitors may have dangerous ideas but until those ideas are expressed within the national boundaries they should be allowed to proceed in peace. Dismissal of an unruly guest is a far more civilized method of maintaining order than barring the door to all suspicious and unconventional applicants. The phrase "a free country" appears to have been lost in the jumble of distorted democracy. To allow radicals to enter the United States is not necessarily a proclamation of national radicalism; but not to allow them, especially when their menace is at most only potential...
...stage-set for dramas of New England-a long room with a stove in it, a few boxes of sweet crackers, a teamster or two, a cat in a chair, a dingy glass case filled with painted chocolates and striped stick candy. A bell rang when you opened the door, and John Shedd's employer rose from his rocking-chair to indicate that questions might be addressed to him. Harried by life, the storekeeper distrusted all men, but most of all, those who worked in his store. He never allowed John Shedd to make change for a customer...