Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, pattering eagerly ahead, he led them to a tiny door, opened it, revealed a dark ascending stair. "This stairway leads," said the Abbe Loubiere, "to the dome. There the view is truly superb. Come!" Last week the Abbe gathered newspapermen about him on the steps of the Sacre Coeur, confided eagerly...
...Matt Moore). Scenarios are never so stupid as when they fret with secret service intrigue. In this one, the British U. S., Russian diplomats fight it out for the balance of power. The dastardly Bolshevik spies perpetrate villainous deeds. Especially reprehensible is the smooth lady-spy who opens the door every time state secrets are being discussed. Fortunately for civilization, Matt Moore, U. S. Secret Service agent, marches capably before the camera whenever conditions become too crucial...
...himself he accepted the opportunity with prompt good taste. All last week he was rushed around Manhattan. Men with papers and pencils in their hands kept pointing things out to him and waiting to see the mist of wonder rise in his face. They made him go through a door with four sides that spun round like a trap and, of course, he got stuck in it-that was what they seemed to expect of him. They asked him what he thought of the women he saw. "They have naked necks," he said. He grew a little tired of taxicabs...
...elsewhere, was delighted when John returned to New York to find himself the father of such a youth. There was something princely in the way he posed, astride an otherwise unmanageable black stallion, for Sculptor St. George; in the calmness with which he retrieved and accepted the handkerchief and door key dropped at his feet by his first woman, a reigning and inaccessible beauty...
...possible that arrangements may be made with Ray Bishop to operate an inter-class hockey league on his out-door Woodbridge rink, but under the circumstances this is the only possible activity which will be attempted in hockey at Yale this year...