Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midnight in Paris. Through the dark streets rushed reporters in a taxicab. The cab stopped before the U. S. Embassy. The reporters rang the doorbell and pounded on the U. S. Embassy door. A sleepy concierge came to find out what was the matter. "We want to see Ambassador Kellogg; he is visiting with Ambassador Herrick," demanded the reporters. "C'est impossible," declared the concierge. "Les Excellences se sont déjà couch...
...concierge closed the door on the unfortunate reporters. So thankless was the task of the omnipresent press when it bore the news to Mr. Hughes that his resignation as Secretary of State had been accepted; to Mr. Kellogg that he had been named to succeed to that post...
...active figure, with two eyes peering through large glasses emerged from the door at the left of the platform. He advanced to the centre in front of the expectant orchestra and bowed to the audience. The audience assembled in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, applauded loudly. The conductor turned to the orchestra-it was the Philharmonic Orchestra. He was new to it and to the audience. He stood poised, at once elastic and tense, as if he were restraining a great passion...
...meeting this evening will be open to members of the University and to the public at one dollar each. Tickets may be obtained at Amee's Bookstore, the Harvard Cooperative Society and at the door...
There was a scuffle of feet outside the dressing-room door. A call boy-"Mr. Gatti wants you. Immediately." Young Tibbett grabbed his robe. Gatti-Casazza, famed director of the Metropolitan, smilingly pushed him toward the stage. There, alone, he took his curtain call, bowed again and again. Then the opera was permitted to proceed...