Word: portis
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...Sunday morning Investigator Rabell drove over from his home in Pelham, N. Y. to the Jones estate in Scarsdale. Dressed in white linen, the smart, baldish accountant was led into the Jones study, which was fairly crawling with microphones and dictaphones-under the desk, under the couch, in the portiéres, behind the radiators and pictures, in the radio cabinet. Upstairs two court stenographers recorded every word, and a platoon of lawyers and officials listened in. Mr. Jones was particularly pleased that SECounsel Burns was on hand...
...gives one immediately a sense of power, poised and acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social contacts than his associates; he is often seen at smart parties, gravely watching from a portière, or dancing with a lady larger than himself...
...Egyptian headdress is the centre of fright. It was stolen from an Egyptian tomb and has ended up in a plain English country house, which is very properly upset by long, naked arms reaching from behind portières. It is reliably reported that this play was written in all seriousness and in rehearsal evinced a cranky tendency to sound funny at the wrong moment. Therefore it was made funny in a few more spots and blandly billed as burlesque...
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