Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room of the New York World, down the long rows of worn old desks. A big, vociferous typhoon with red hair, blue shirt, trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...
Then in through the door that took the typhoon wafted a mild breeze, smiling slightly, somewhat unfamiliar but with an apparent calm assurance: quick-eyed, with greying hair, quietly energetic, deedy. Ralph E. Renaud, until recently managing editor of the New York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...
Said Swope: "I have no plans. But I'll have an office uptown and the door will be open always for World men." With characteristic brutal frankness he added: "I don't know anything about Mr. Renaud. But I do feel some regret that no one was taken from the staff to be managing editor...
...bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...
...rather not be beautiful. It's hard to get a line on yourself if you're beautiful." One St. Patrick's Day "Nicky" Arnstein, sought throughout the U. S. for his share in a $5,000,000 bond robbery, got into a cab at his front door and drove through a police parade to headquarters where he gave himself up. Fannie Brice paid for his defense. Although she owns a monkey, occasionally paints portraits, and likes to ride, she is one of the most original, unaffected, and forceful personalities in the show business...