Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said Mr. Nathan, closing the taxi door, "which it will be," and added smugly, "We must try to be fair...
...Conference. He edited the Pittsburgh Methodist and wrote The Challenge of Pittsburgh, Tiny Tales of Modern Miracles, Regular Fellows, The Faith of the People's Poet (the late James Whitcomb Riley, personal friend of Dr. Marsh). He preached to "capacity houses," with hundreds being turned from his church door. Now, beginning next month, he will administer the affairs, social, pedagogical and financial, of a city university with 12,000 students-a big job, but his bishop (Bishop Francis J. McConnell) said when he heard the news: "He is far and away the best executive in my area . . . Dr. Marsh...
...thinking, was squatting, a puny, untutored boy, on the back stoop of his Battle Creek home. Chin cupped in hands, he was pondering on what to make of himself, and as the kaleidoscope of boyish day dreams passed across his fancy, he pictured himself standing in the open door of a schoolhouse, beckoning to enter a long file of dirty, unkempt children. This vision, he has said, "gave me the idea of my life work. I must prepare to give a chance to children who had no chance...
...believer in the capabilities of the common man must see that to grow in wisdom mere entrance at a college is not enough. In guaranteeing equality of educational opportunity, American universities have come very near accepting as a corollary that dangerous equality of educational condition which, under the "open door" policy, sets its standards only slightly above the plane of mediocrity...
...taxi whose driver shrilly squawked his little bulb horn whizzed up to the door. Out stepped the returning U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore was welcomed with acclaim. From his native Pittsburgh to Madrid he is known as a good fellow cast in the Gargantuan mold...