Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishman- a Beau Brummel in khaki pants and red shirt, exiled from home because of ill-health. There were compensating novelties. For instance, on the night of his arrival he lay shivering through the white hours in a disused woodshed while a lion drank from a reservoir outside his door; later, he put down a native riot, shot a hippopotamus, trapped a lion, was hoodooed by a witch-doctor, barely escaped being trampled by a herd of wild elephants...
...Another night, while there was a light, nothing abnormal occurred; but as soon as it was extinguished, big blows were heard on the ground-floor door in the garden. Mr. Christo quickly descended the stairs and stationed himself by the door. The blows started afresh. He opened suddenly, and saw nobody. He went out. . . . Hardly was he out when the door banged behind him and was locked. Outside he saw nobody. Mr. Christo, much interested, was convinced that somebody had played a practical joke. He took up his revolver...
...Christo, who did not know or admit the possibility of psychic phenomena, resolved to call in the aid of a policeman. ... An officer and two constables were placed at his disposal. . . . After searching and inspecting every corner of the house, the lights were extinguished. Knocks on the front door were immediately heard downstairs. 'Do you hear that?' said Mr. Christo to the constables. 'Perfectly,' they said...
...robe to the Queen of France, has offered a handsome reward. In the village dwells a beautiful damsel, Rose-Marie. Her parents are very, very poor-in fact, the family starves, so Rose-Marie prays for help. As she rises from her knees, there is a knock at the door and the Wandering Woman, a mysterious figure, enters. She is well treated, adds her prayers to those of Rose-Marie. The secret is accordingly revealed, and Rose collects the reward of virtue, piety and poverty. The music. The libretto offers but scant opportunity to the dramatic composer. There is little...
Discretion veils the reason for Japanese hostility to the proposed successor to the popular Cyrus E. Woods (TIME, June 16), but it might be stated that Pr. Schurman has 'been actively identified with the traditional U. S. Far Eastern Policy of the "Open Door" in China, as laid down by U. S. Secretary of State John Hay a quarter of a century ago and amplified by Secretary Hughes at the Washington Conference in 1921 into an assertion of Chinese integrity and an organized attempt to create a strong central government in China. This policy runs counter to the hopes...