Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps the Vagabond climbed, dimly conscious that he had tasted a life and a time foreign...
...against a powerful and favored Holy Cross eleven. Tickets for the game, are being handled by the B. C. A. A. and by the II. A. A., which gave the use of the Stadium for the occasion. A crowd of 50,000 is expected, and a portion of the gate receipts will go to Mayor James M. Curley's unemployment fund...
...week for a reunion (TIME, Nov. 16). After greeting his old teammates the President led them out to the rear posing ground for pictures. In his soft hand he gingerly balanced a brand new football, marked '94. Then he went back to his office- "probably to count the gate receipts," jibed one old footballer. Because he was a good Hoover friend and biographer and onetime Stanford cheer leader, Will Irwin was invited to the reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while the teammates rah-rahed mildly for Stanford. Then on the lawn the players crouched in their oldtime positions...
Mario Roustan, Minister of Public Instruction and Art in the Laval Cabinet, rose early in Paris last week and walked to work. On the way he passed the open gate of the Carnavalet Museum, once the home of letter-writing Mme de Sevigne, now the Historical Museum of the City. There was no one in sight. He walked in. He walked through the court and up the stairs, sauntered through the deserted galleries...
With a plot no more preposterous than many detective stories, Man with the Painted Head contrives an atmosphere more realistic than most. The artists' colony at Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts...