Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no possibility of reproducing the brogue, or the cadence or the Hit of the voice. "What is he, that big fellow with the gold top?" "They do funny things to you in New York," he goes on. "A man came at me sudden out of a doorway the other day, and he says : 'Have you any use for a lady's necklace ?" Now I didn't know the answer to that, so I looked at him puzzled for a while, then I thought of it. Td rather have pyjamas,' I told...
Near Bourges, France, a wild boar, hunters after him, dashed down the street of the village of Grand Mallery, scrambled through a doorway, through a hall, into a room where lay, as he had lain for months, an invalid. This invalid screamed, arose, leapt out of the window. The hunters came, killed the boar; the sick man returned to work...
...replica of the statue of John Harvard, which has just been placed in a niche above the doorway of the new dormitory on the corner of Langdon Street and Massachusetts Avonue broke all the speed records for production...
Andrew J. Volstead clapping his hand to the shoulder of Jesus Christ in the manner of one who makes an arrest; William J. Bryan spilling a jar of wine made by holy miracle out of water; William H. Anderson at the doorway in a derby hat. This parable?a raid on the marriage feast of Cana, painted by J. Francois Kaufman and exhibited last year in Manhattan?led to the arrest and conviction of Abraham S. Baylinson, Secretary of the Society of Independent Artists, for "violation of public decency." Last week an Appellate Court reversed the decision, returned...
...surrounded by rare, beautiful and very precious treasures of Art−a collection estimated second only to that of John Pierpont Morgan−Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston died at the age of 85. Fenway Court is one of the most glorious monuments to American wealth. Its marble Renaissance doorway opens to the public a few days each year. Virtually all of the stones in the structure were brought from Venice. Around the central court are balconies brought from the Ca' d'Oro, the most beautiful Gothic palace on the Grand Canal. The pavement is an ancient Roman...