Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Manhattan, Montreal is a portal city, the doorway to French Canada. It has tourist attractions, too-the best French food and the gayest nightclubs (it also had the best bordellos...
Since that day, a year ago, the Costas have known scarcely a moment's peace. As the news of Antonio's clairvoyance spread, all Italy began beating a path to their humble, stuccoed doorway. Rich & poor stand in line outside, week after week, armed with snapshots of lost loved ones; Antonio takes them on at the rate of 40 a day. The poor he admits free, but Mama Costa carefully tots up the "spontaneous contributions" of the wealthier. When Anthony fails to see a vision, he gets furious, rushes out to play until he is relaxed...
Inside the old white doorway the house had been arranged the way F.D.R. had left it for the last time. The clocks were stopped. His clothes, including the navy cape he wore at Yalta, still hung in the closet; his hat & coat were still by the hall door. Odd paraphernalia-bird collections, pictures, a cribbage board-were in their accustomed places. On the table near the mahogany bed in his old room were scattered mysteries and year-old newspapers and magazines.* In his library with the lived-in look were the maps on which he had followed the war-which...
...Murray and Fairless left the Cabinet Room and walked toward the lobby, they looked as if they had been through a bad time themselves. When Phil Murray came to the little colonnade framing the doorway, he stopped. His face was red; his eyes tired. He seemed to lean against a column as he talked. Slowly, in his soft Scottish burr, he told reporters the news. He turned to Ben Fairless for confirmation. Fairless, too, was worn out. His semi-stiff collar was sweaty and crumpled; his arms dangled loosely at his side. "I approve the statement of Mr. Murray...
Listen, listen! The small song bird at the doorway of God's living place makes a whistling sound on a high note, And Phoebus makes a start at getting...