Word: doorway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What fired up Father Carey was a recent stroll about his parish when "I had to chase two couples out of a doorway." Such encounters have shaken many other Catholic educators, but even banning steady daters from extracurricular activities seems unworkable to Chicago's archdiocesan school superintendent, Msgr. William McManus. He prefers counseling to regulating, even though "steady dating is getting to be old hat in Chicago." As for public schools, one top Denver official typically rejects rules on dating as "an invasion of rights that belong in the home." San Francisco's School Superintendent Harold Spears holds...
...Arranges transfer to a farm crew, slips out of bed one night, tiptoes past the sleeping guard, opens the doorway to freedom-and admits a flock of raucously cackling geese...
...touch of humor" is in all his paintings, though it sometimes takes a jeweler's loupe to read all the fine print. In one painting a Paris streetwalker in all the trappings of her profession, from necklace cross to handbag to ankle bracelet, loiters in her doorway next to the Hôtel Beau Séjour. There will be no séjour today, however; on the hotel's door a tiny sign reads: "Closed for vacation." In another of Sivard's pictures, a Parisian nun is emerging from a Metro station with the frosted-glass...
Girlhood Granny. Yet, simple as she tried to portray herself, she was a complicated woman with an agonizingly complex background. Her mother, Mrs. Anna Hall Roosevelt, was a beautiful lady with little capacity for motherhood. Eleanor remembered standing in the parlor doorway at home as a child, "often with my finger in my mouth." and hearing her mother tell visitors: "She is such a funny child, so old-fashioned that we always call her Granny." Recalled Eleanor, "I wanted to sink through the floor in shame...
...instead of moving on to the next classes, a crowd of students gathered in front of Conner Hall, where a campus newcomer named James H. Meredith had just completed a political science class. As Meredith appeared in the doorway, the waiting students began hissing him. He was a fellow student, a fellow Mississippian. and a fellow human being. But these likenesses were submerged by a terrible intensity of difference...