Word: doorstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feeling of Power. Hecht has no feeling that Palestine is the land for him. At his comfortable riverside estate at Nyack, on the Hudson, where a Hollywood "Oscar" is used as a doorstop, he lay on a couch and told Correspondent Evelyn Webber of the London Evening Standard how it felt to be a vicarious terrorist. As the Standard reported it: "I just talk. Arouse and excite the reader, and make him fighting mad. . . . Writing propaganda is like falling in love with yourself and the veiled wonders in your own brain. While I write I grow mystic. A feeling...
...frayed but hearty welcome mat will be prominently displayed on the front doorstop at 14 Plympton Street tomorrow night when the CRIMSON opens its fall competitions to all four boards...