Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America and Australia have already openly declared their closed-door policy in so far as the Asiatics are concerned. This superiority complex is no more a matter of private behavior, but is writ large in the laws of their lands...
...there is not the exuberance of Bacchic indulgence, nor the incessant drumming and tapping of a dance. There is one vigorous thunder-clap, worked by unseen soles upon the floor; and that is all. It ascends to the ceiling; worn faces twist half-concernedly about; the sacred door-keepers smile in placid obeisance to a higher will; the sound is crushed, and then gone...
...American rulerLeo X sent it to Duke Frederick of Saxony, supplicating him, in vain, not to sustain Devil-seeing Martin Luther in his rebellion against the Roman Church, the rebellion Luther had started when in 1517 he nailed his famed list of denunciations on Wittenberg's church door...
...wrest acclaim from society in compensation for a grotesque nose, causes "justice" to be done by "planting" some of the dead girl's hairs in a crevice of the camera. Clyde Griffiths goes to the death house, undergoes the torturing wait, passes through the little green door...
...find what claim to greatness beside the tag of R.A., Sir John Lavery possessed. And there at the Vose galleries I saw people thrilling over, at best mediocre work--merely out of respect for the R.A.--that and the fact he had married a lady from Chicago. While next door at the Casson galleries were the excellent oils of the Zubiaurre brothers, whose failure at attractions for Boston art lovers lies in their not having an--R.A. So much for labels...