Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lover-in-the-closet blackout is exhumed. Boisterously the audience laughs at a burlesque of the unctuous radio announcer. Of the songs, all donated by their authors, four promise to be hits. Prolific Irving Berlin con tributes "Begging for Love." Others acclaimed with spirit: "I'm Just a Doorstep Baby," "Hot Moonlight," "My Heart's a Banjo...
...Hoesch telephoned wildly for an interview with Premier Laval. Premier Laval, having made his gesture, came back to town; so did sleepy-eyed Brer Briand. Hysterically Ambassador von Hoesch begged the Premier to reconsider. Did he really intend to bring about a revolution in Germany?on France's doorstep? Had he considered the possible consequences? Premier Laval was polite. He had considered. . . . Mais non. Without political guarantees from Germany, there was nothing more he could do. Ambassador von Hoesch left and Premier Laval had another, slightly sinister interview with two other gentlemen: Marshals Pétain and Lyautey, commanders...
...Nice, France, Charles Rancurel, sent to Devil's Island as an incorrigible burglar in 1915, who escaped in 1924. was recaptured in 1926 and who escaped again in 1928, walked into an almost certain trap at his mother's doorstep. Arrested, he cried: "Let me see mother just once before she dies, and I'll be satisfied! I am through escaping...
...brought what he called "best minds." After a decade Secretary of State Hughes is Chief Justice of the U. S.; Secretary Mellon still sits in the Treasury; Attorney General Daugherty is a political outcast; Postmaster General Hays is cinema tsar; Secretary of the Interior Fall is on the penitentiary doorstep; Secretary of Commerce Hoover is in the White House; Secretary of Labor Davis is in the Senate from Pennsylvania. Dead are Secretaries of War Weeks, of the Navy Denby, of Agriculture Wallace...
Educational institutions will prove their value to mankind in time of need, not when they have succeeded in scattering a few crumbs of wisdom on everyone's doorstep, but when they have sent out, from their own walls.. intelligent leaders who are prepared to cope with the practical problems of society and who are ready to lead others to the solution. The American university is still faced with the problem of developing intellectual leadership among its enrolled undergraduates. When it has done that, it may turn to increasing its audience...