Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months before his lease was up. The landlord brought suit to collect rent for the balance of the lease. Basso Gustafson, last week in court, thundered that he had two good reasons for moving out: 1) Killer Harry K. Thaw was his neighbor, 2) patrol wagons at the door and policemen riding in the apartment's elevators were annoying, especially when they came to arrest disorderly women. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (née Dorothy Thompson) last week accused Theodore (American Tragedy') Dreiser of plagiarism. She had written an able book entitled The New Russia, based on her despatches...
...Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
...talkies' have great possibilities, and they will probably in a great measure supplant the movies, but I don't think anything will ever take the place of the legitimate stage." Thus William Hodge, leading man in "Straight Thru the Door," answered the query of a CRIMSON reporter yesterday as to the effect of the talking movies on the stage...
...with this consoling thought, the infants tone down their vocal chorus to a mere whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love him!" "Then that's a very good reason not to marry him," despite Miss Gish's grotesque make-up and quaintly haphazard clothes, Young Love is adequate...