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...cooking class working on crêpes Suzette tossed their delicate flapjacks into the air and raced for the hall. Several teachers marched their classes to the assembly hall, conducting hasty rehearsals of the national anthem on the way. A nun assigned to unlock the main chapel door was so rattled that she could do nothing but rattle the key in the lock. The royal party passed her by and filed through another door. "How beautiful," said one of them, "are the angels here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Royal Visit | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...side, raided the stronghold, found her husband "not alone." With this evidence, she retired to their Beekman Place town house and bolted the doors. When Rose appeared, in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac, photographers banged away at the blinking, bewildered husband as he fumbled with his key, vainly trying to unlock the door. Then he gave up, returned to his apartment to let the lawyers take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Circles | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...Shackled. As she spread the alarm, choking black clouds cascaded through the halls and into the rooms of the sanatorium's northern wing, a two-story stone annex. Nurses and attendants plunged into the annex to unlock doors and get at the screaming, the laughing and the uncomprehending men & women penned inside. Firemen raised ladders and hacked heavy wire screens away from windows. George Lewis, a 51-year-old attendant, found the keys to one ward for the violently insane and led firemen to it. "Don't go in there until I go in first," he warned them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Chance to Be a Hero | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Gloria Swanson, flamboyant screen actress of the silent movies, will unlock the secret chambers of her heart to reminisce on the old days in Hollywood at 8 p.m. tonight in Fogg Museum Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Hears Gloria Swanson | 10/11/1949 | See Source »

Morison, who pulled off the absent-minded professor routine Monday afternoon, had put the briefcase on the roof of his car while struggling to unlock a jammed car door. Flushed by success after forcing the lock open, he drove off from Harvard Square with the briefcase still over his head. In due time it fell off, and Morison hastened to report the incident to the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Gets Back Itinerant Briefcase | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

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