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Karayan. But Karayan had meanwhile moved. He never received it. One morning last week as the consul general's car slowed to a stop outside his consulate, indignant Mejardich Karayan fired six quick shots from a doorway across the street, killing James Theodore Marriner. To police he explained that he had nothing against Mr. Marriner personally-the consul general just happened to arrive first at the consulate that morning...
...Hollywood he walked to the simple doorway of a big studio. A group of keen-eyed children holding little books stood about the steps. They stared at him closely, mumbled a few words, even touched his sleeve, and then shouted in unison as he passed through, "Naw, he don't look like Mischa Auer...
...bushy-browed, told the same story he told to the Greenfield police hurriedly summoned to his house on the night of May 25. He was just leaving his garage after driving his wife home from a church meeting when a man in a long coat appeared in the doorway, pointed a gun at him and said in a clear voice: "Norton, I want to talk to you." Mr. Norton ducked into his house and the man disappeared. But he had recognized a face and voice he had worked with for 22 years. "That man," said Mr. Norton, "was Thomas Edwin...
...same building; but through seniority and an especially winning personality which he has, he really works his daylight shift in the public business office. Can't say how he spends his nights, but there's a night club next door. Tomas sometimes sits in the doorway to the Commercial office, facing the elevators; other times, he perches on the counter under the sign reading "Complaints." When an irate subscriber comes up to the counter to raise the devil about something, Tomas arches his back and rubs up against the fellow's shoulder, purring amiably. He knows...
When Warwick Deeping is writing in his own person, he likes to use much stiff-legged literarities as "flavicomous, ecology, otiose," speaks of people "occluding" the doorway. But his wistful better nature comes to the fore in his characters' speeches, which are always from the heart. Says Rosamund: "One has such a horror of being either priggish or sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like...