Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petulant stenographer's pout and a pair of plump small legs do not carry Nancy Carroll through as the bit of sweetening in "Manhattan Cocktail," the current cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest...
...that even the press did not at first chronicle his coming. After a lengthy conference with French Prime Minister & Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, Mr. Gilbert wired London, with the result that Chancellor Churchill set out for France-encountering very dirty weather on the Channel-and arrived upon the doorstep of the British Embassy in Paris...
...loved little, angular Dutch gables, the wide Dutch sky over the flatlands. He knew an advanced, much-mooted artist named Rembrandt and often bought his etchings which caught the homely beauties of life in Holland in deep chiaroscuro. Jan Six also collected many contemporary paintings. Holland from his doorstep and on canvas was shining, sunny, softly reflected in the canals...
...continued his examination of Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, alleged Master Mind of Philadelphia's underworld. There was much evidence of Mr. Hoff's Christmas largesse to sympathetic policemen. Eighteen pound turkeys were the gifts he chose, and he gave them in flocks. Turkeys mysteriously appeared on the doorstep of many an officer who had never met Mr. Hoff. In 1926, said District Attorney Monaghan, "Boo Boo" gave $250,000 worth of Christmas presents to policemen...
...miles, 385 yards from the doorstep of the New York Athletic Club, Manhattan, to the City Hall in Long Beach, Long Island. The road lies through the city and over a bridge and through a suburban district crowded with automobiles, trucks, delivery wagons, boys on bicycles, people walking, busses, trolley-cars, and traffic cops. Last week 30 marathoners ran a race along this road and Joie Ray won it. His time was within two minutes of the Olympic record for 26 miles made on a course that had no traffic...