Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what remained of its prisoners to their friends, who straightway sought a public hall for a public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them...
...Lewis, "High Hat King of Jazz", speaking of his orchestra in an interview to the Crimson, backstage in the Tremont Theatre yesterday. He had just finished a performance and was resting for a moment after his strenuous three hours. Just at that moment, there squeezed angrily through the doorway of the dressing room a musician carrying under his arm a bass viol. Turning the instrument over, he showed three great cracks to the comedian. "How about getting the heat turned off in this the-alre?" he asked. But Lewis, not taken aback by this declared, "What! and have...
...back-stage mazes of the Wilbur Theatre, present home of "Queen High", are particularly intricate, and the CRIMSON interviewer was glad at last to see the generous form of John Hazard in the doorway of his dressing room. Following Mr. Hazard inside the reporter was seated and properly entertained with the amenities which are the fashion these days. The conversation took on a mellow tone...
...girl she defeated in the finals was Lilli de Alvarez, graceful, excitable, spectacular. Disregarding the convention which calls upon the virgin daughters of Spain to spend their evenings peeping from a barred window at the cloaked shape of a lover in the doorway opposite, Señorita Alvarez managed to make herself the most competent female stroke-player in the world, not excepting Lenglen. But the perfect execution of strokes does not necessarily mean matches won, and the play of Señorita Alvarez is always more thrilling than dependable. She will sacrifice many errors for an ace, she would...
Last November, Edwin Elmore, famed Peruvian publicist, once the revolutionary ally of José, fell a-quarreling with him in the doorway of a newspaper office at Lima. What occurred is uncertain. Poet José alleges that he, attacked by unarmed Publicist Elmore, drew his ever-ready revolver and killed in self-defense...