Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged Tiger. General Pershing, Commanders Savage and Spafford and a delegation largely representative of the 48 States, trooped up the steps of a house in the Avenue de Messine, Paris. When the door opened, an 87-year-old figure in grey uniform, grey police cap and grey cotton gloves hurried down the hall. "How do you do? Old friend, what are you doing here?" said the grey figure...
...tickets remaining after the public seat-sale will be sold at the University Book Store after October 8, and also at the door of Sanders Theatre on the nights of the concerts...
...shook his slouching shoulders with vigor. William Albertson, ruffled and ashamed, said "Let me go"; then with his fist he bashed Teacher Carroll's nose. When she screamed with pain and rage, teachers and pupils rushed into the hallway. Soon five policemen in blue coats ran through the door, the children ran back into their classrooms to sit primly at their desks, William Albertson ran home crying. Later he was arrested...
...venture across the threshold of a door will be to incur the wrath of the guardians of the law. Openly to defy the will of Dictator Kemal will be to invite arrest. Only officials with special passes, passengers and crews on steamers and express trains will be allowed freedom of movement...
...boarding house, where rents are low and hard to collect, to reveal a perfect spawn of loves and murders. Three rooms give on the sitting-room of this squalid pension, each of which by itself is a cell of drama. Many more embryo plots sneak in through the front door, the back door, down the stairway, or just happen in the alleyway outside. They tangle themselves into a swarm of ugly, writhing life, sticky and sordid, grimy with bitter wisecracks and cruelly shot through with flashes of vagrant, tender beauty...