Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...currency to the so-called protocols of the 'Wise Men of Zion,' which have been demonstrated, as I learn, to be gross forgeries, and for contending that the Jews have been engaged in a conspiracy to control the capital and the industries of the world, besides laying at their door many offenses against decency, public order and good morals...
...into one of the most famed and entirely innocent of Swedish customs. Upon ringing for a bath, they were led down the corridor by a woman exactly resembling in age, attractiveness and dress the ordinary U. S. "scrub-woman." Unsuspecting, many U. S. delegates entered the bathroom, closed the door, disrobed and got into the tub. The Swedish bathwoman, having retired during this interval, suddenly re-entered without warning, soaped and scrubbed the delegate in question, then applied a towel as large as a sheet, patting vigorously until...
...bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...Beerbohm caricatured the queue of fashionables awaiting a sitting at Sargent's door and Sargent grew to say "paughtraits" in mock disgust. The Boston Library and Harvard gave him splendid scope for his genius on their walls. Yet for "paughtraits" he continued most famous. His President Wilson fetched $50,000. Some day, perhaps, his landscapes will bring the like. He was an outdoor man, a sketcher in the Alps, Tyrol, Rockies. Pre-Raphaelitism, or any ism omitting the air and light or nature, were incomprehensible...
...prank: "Antony and I had a world of fun. We would rush up to a house (in the darkness), knock loudly at the door, and then hide ourselves in the shadows. When the door was opened, we let out a long, dismal, wolflike howl, and then ran away giggling in the dark...