Word: gate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of his company's stay, Jean Louis Barrault walked through the vestibule of Sanders theater and through the crowd as though it were his dressing room. He was still in the process of being made up as he shook hands and made last minute arrangements over the ticket gate. The effect was to make all of Memorial Hall his stage. This, in essence, is Barrault's approach to the theater...
...Sanders or great masses of the local French colony for whom this was a real occasion. Some of the faithful waited around for places despite the harping of imported ticket takers to the effect that all performances were sold out. One persistent little woman gently pushed aside the gate man with the comment, "but there is always a free set there in the front...
...estranged wife deplored Mr. Stewart's stern tactics though not his aims: "When Colin is threatened, he only becomes more obstinate. I have felt like horsewhipping Colin myself sometimes." The strife-torn saga was not concluded at week's end. After abandoning his. Netting Hill Gate lodgings, Outsider Wilson and the heedless Joy were reported bound for America, where Wilson hopes to get a divorce...
...business of making Calcutta a better place to die in-and to ward off death when possible. Mother Teresa and 62 sisters of the six-year-old Roman Catholic Order of the Missionaries of Charity are running one of Asia's most remarkable missions at the very gate of the temple of Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction...
...Teresa (the name she took when she became a nun) studied nursing and moved into the slums. She organized outdoor schools and set up a dispensary, petitioned the municipal authorities for a shelter to which the dying destitute could be brought. She was given the pilgrim hostel at the gate of Kali's temple in Kalighat, the most ancient quarter of the city, named it Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) and went to work...