Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night, kept awake by a troop of crying phantoms and wild dreadful faces. Every closet was to her a nest of horrors; great cats crouched on the shelves, snakes writhed among the shoes on the floor; if you put your ear to the keyhole when the door was shut, you could hear them mewing and hissing, but no matter how suddenly you looked in, the wise, hungry creatures could hide before you saw them. Cupboards were all right when the door was open, so people forgot about the darkness in them when the door was shut. If anybody ever...
...told her mother, Mrs. Raymond Gunn, about this awful secret and advised her to be careful. Mrs. Gunn, who often had to go five times to her daughter's room to say goodnight, who had often had to quiet a mighty fear by leaving a crack in the door to the lighted hall, listened carefully. Then she said: "You come with me. I'm going to teach you a lesson." She put her small daughter in a closet, closed the door, locked it, listened to her daughter's screams and walked away...
...flurry of action that the prose describes. Well imagined, brilliantly effected, they make it impossible to think of John Paul Jones without suddenly seeing him, fighting with a sailor at the Island of Tobago, firing a derisive musket in reply to a broadside, standing, like a lord, at the door of a ballroom where several ladies dance and one is bowing...
...began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand and led her to the door.' There she raised an outcry, tore her clothing, and rushing out on the street to a woman she called her mother, screamed that Jones had assaulted her. . . . Jones at first failed to realize that he had been victimized by . . . the . . . 'badger game.' " A scandal ensued and the sailor left...
...first Sanders Theatre concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will beheld on Thursday evening, with Serge Koussevitsky conducting. The program will comprise works by Berlioz, Brahms, Stravinsky, and Debussy, Tickets remaining from the season sale will be sold at the door...