Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowds to stand, day after day and far into each night, outside the tall iron fence of Buckingham Palace. Most of the time a chill and dreary drizzle fell, alike upon the silent crowd and on the many twinkling limousines which hurried, one after another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never...
...What's the use of quibbling about the relative strength of the two fleets when, in any future contingency, the American and British fleets will almost certainly be found alongside each other? It is very significant that President Coolidge is holding the door open for British suggestions regarding naval disarmament...
Tickets at $2.50 each will be available to all members at the door...
...great a contradiction to the present tenets of the Law School will be allowed. Indeed, if one ponders the matter, there comes a sudden dawning that the debate is hardly an outside activity; that here is merely a step in training for the Great World that lies without the door; that the midnight oil will have to last just a little longer...
...organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time of their arrival is concluded...