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...investor for 43 years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that Simon William functions as President. He is known to have bought pearls of great price, to have contributed staunchly to this and that, but never, like members of the other Straus family...
...small bronze plate beside a doorway on upper Fifth Avenue [Manhattan], one may read the name Colgate & Co. This doorway leads to the new Colgate Salon and Showrooms, opened last spring, and to step through it is to step straight into fairyland-at least that is what those who visit it assure us. The Salon is the work of Howard Greenley, famous architect, and contains a complete display of Colgate products...
...King descended from his car and in a moment stood in the inn doorway. The company within sat transfixed, then stumbled to their feet. The grinning bride began to blush, the bridegroom, a lusty bricklayer, began to stammer...
...Deputy Macib followed Deputy Perez and in a doorway emptied a revolver into his opponent's body. Perez died. Macib was arrested but promptly released. It is unlawful to arrest a member of Congress...
...Pittsburgh late at night, in a line of smoke-stained houses on a miserable street, the darkness was broken by a single orange oblong, the doorway of a Chinese laundry. Two short, stocky men were perceptible, for a moment, in its glow. They shot the laundryman where he toiled over his ironing board, then stepped back into the darkness...