Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Invitations to the ball will be sent out to members of the University the first of next week and not more than two tickets at $2.50 each may be obtained at the door on presentation of the invitations with the name of the guest to whom they were sent...
...plutocrat tossed his gold watch (Waltham) into the arena. An animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...Gershwin before he sailed for London. They wanted to ask him if he were fond of animals, if he had ever been arrested, what he thought of U. S. women, U. S. traffic laws, U. S. music. The most brazen among them, a goggled fellow, rapped sharply on the door of Gershwin's stateroom. "Come in," drawled a voice...
...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...
...covered structure was thei exhibited by its manufacturer. Lifted high on a dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...