Word: doors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woof, Woof", went a creature cloistered in a sample of a main tent. I gave Oscar the necessary ten cents and up he went to do his daily good turn to the local faksters. His crest fallen features quivered with chagrin as he rejoined the family group before the door of the side show. "It was no Indian", he cursed, "It was only his wife...
Three or four days later--such things are not important with the Gallic police--a squad of gendarmes rang M. Daudet's door bell. M. Daudet's butler intimated that the master was not "at home". The gendarmes bowed and announced that they would wait. And so the "siege" that ended two days ago began. After M. Daudet had received French pastry, champagne, and other life maintaining victuals in great number from his friends, and after daily during the "siege" announcing that to surrender would mean the end of civil liberty, honour, and whatnot, M. Daudet quite naturally surrendered...
...Joseph and to the Savoy Hotel, an apology. The "hotel next door" is the Cecil...
...Jewish questions they imagine that they need nothing at all, that their role in Jewish life is only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money...
...Some method," he said, "ought to be found for arousing this large group who are 'asleep in Jesus.' . . . There is not much consolation in taking in a large number of new members at the front door and letting out an equal number at the back door." Let there be a campaign against indifference "without the thought of raising money...