Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this circle, Mr. and Mrs. Lodge were intimates. John Hay had built his house next door; but most of the gatherings (breakfasts) were at 1603-feasts of spirit and intellect in a world where politics constituted but one interest among a score. "Nowhere in the U. S.," says Hay's biographer, "was there then, or has there since been, such a salon." Being in Washington, it was a salon culturally and temperamentally more cosmopolitan than it could have been in contemporary Boston, less worldly, less bizarre than it might have been in contemporary Manhattan...
...evening of the performance operagoers flocked into the hall and expectantly waited. Who would conduct? Ernst Knoch would take the baton, it was generally believed. The orchestra tuned up. Then out of a door, tripping gaily, baton in hand, came Mr. Waghalter. His resignation was withdrawn...
After the rally, tickets for the game will be on sale at the door...
During all the years since the building was constructed, only one man has been locked in when the doors were closed in the evening. Last year a graduate student went to sleep while reading back among the stacks, and did not wake until the night watchman came along on his rounds and aroused him. The watchman used his key to open the door and let the sleeper out. Since the stacks are patrolled all through the night there is only a very slight chance of any one's remaining in the building long after the doors have been closed...
Candidates should report at the side door of the Lampoon Building at 7 o'clock...