Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country, gave its first prize in oils to a poster-slick abstraction of a stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats...
...town's best residential sections, Tivoli and Santa Clara, were squeezed in a triangle formed by the military academy on the north, the airbase on the south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government passed out arms to trade unionists and other civilian volunteers at the police station...
With joint instruction the Harvard man is able to study with 'Cliffedwellers (upper right); he can catch between class smokes with them (middle right); and probably is a more frequent visitor in the Briggs Hall doorway (bottom right...
...main business street, Red soldiers herded captured Nationalists into filling stations. When an angry crowd of civilians turned on a frightened Nationalist soldier, Red troops dispersed them. At one busy corner, a Communist noncom stood guard over a lone Nationalist soldier who squatted self-consciously in a doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served a nervous trick as sentry. Behind...
...long black-and-green Daimler, sporting the British royal crest on its radiator, drew up to a doorway on London's Basil Street one day last week. Out stepped a silver-haired lady in a flowered saucepan hat, to stride regally through the swinging doors. It was the 100th birthday of Harrods, one of the world's great department stores, and 81-year-old Queen Mary, a customer for more than 40 years, thought it a proper time to drop...