Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dressed in black, with a Cossack hat perched on her blonde head, Corinne had stationed herself in a doorway on Main Street at the hour when Dallas goes to work. There she waited until Brooks Coffman sauntered by, busily talking to a woman companion. Corinne put her hand in her purse, stepped out behind...
...Monastery of the Mountain of Light in Czestochowa, early last week, the arm of the priest who stands to the left of the doorway, dips his little broom in a can of holy water, and dexterously swishes precious spray over the pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna...
Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented...
...more reassuring was the Government's own ARP (Air Raids Precaution) work last week. At the Admiralty, War Office, Home Office, Works Department and Scotland Yard, men worked three eight-hour shifts. Basements were reconstructed as living quarters, electric kitchens installed, stores of food laid in. Every doorway has been gasproofed and rooms and passages have been equipped with bulkhead doors...
...South American Cardinals) were expected to reach Naples on February 28, the conclave was scheduled to begin that evening. By then, corridors and chambers near the Sistine Chapel (where the balloting takes place) would be bricked up, so that the only access to the conclave would be one doorway. Over that entrance the head of Rome's noble Chigi family would stand guard-Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, hereditary Marshal of the Holy Roman Church. The Marshal would carry in a red velvet satchel two keys to the door, open it only after consultation with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli...