Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went up the steps two at a time, and entered the elevator before the policemen chatting in the lobby had recognized him. "Where is the Police Commissioner's office?" He was let out at the second floor, "strode vigorously" down a long corridor, "pushed aside a heavy door," and went into the Commissioner's office beyond. He stayed with his predecessor 17 minutes, and strode out. Photographers were waiting for him. "Will you pose?" He hesitated, nodded. "Make it snappy now!" Reporters began to ask questions: "Have you been sworn in as Police Commissioner?" "No, I have not." "Will...
...thoughts with extraordinary awe last week to Rome, meekly regretting their inability to be there in person the day before Christmas to see His Holiness Pius XI close with his own hands, with a jeweled trowel of ivory and silver spread mortar and set stones to close the Holy Door in the portico of St. Peter's magnificent basilica on the 23rd Jubilee Year of the Catholic Church. The closing ceremonies were gorgeous, drawing some 70,000 clerics and lay people into St. Peter's itself, and many thousands of the more humble into the public square outside, where they...
Before actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another...
...procession worked its way through St. Peter's; some women from the audience tried to push into the line, were restrained; all went home; the sampietrini, Vatican workmen, rubbed their palms, went home too. A year before Pius XI had opened the Holy Year by hitting the Holy Door with a gold hammer (TIME, Jan. 5). Although strong enough to give a stalwart blow (until immured in the Vatican by papal policy since his election in 1922, he led an active, energetic life; was even a famed mountain climber), he contented himself then with only cracking symbolically a piece...
...pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding machines, all accoutred in blue denim smocks; behind a door marked "Private" bustled J. P. Benkard himself in a blue denim smock; and out on the runners' bench "Gunboat" Smith, onetime prizefighter, now Mr. Benkard's head runner, simpered in a blue denim smock...