He refused entrance to the Kray twins on one occasion because they were inappropriately dressed.
Aichinger's education was interrupted by World War II when, because she was half Jewish, she was refused entrance to medical school.
"Queen's men" start attacking "King's men" in the London streets, and, when Caroline is refused entrance to the Abbey, civil war seems conceivable.
A cleverly made film sequence shows Binchy repeatedly being refused entrance to Central School until he finally makes it through the door.
Writer Ray Galton, half of the Galton & Simpson team that created Steptoe, tells how Brambell was once refused entrance to the BBC club for being too well dressed.
He devoured anyone who tried to escape the kingdom of Hades, the lord of the underworld, and he refused entrance to living humans, though the mythic hero Orpheus gained passage by charming him with music.
Crimson Gold (2003) spotlighted a crisis of masculinity in the nation's underclass, and Offside (2006) was prompted by the experience of the director's daughter, who was refused entrance to a football stadium because of her gender.
These seem tame to our contemporary eyes, accustomed to seeing women donning Les Smokings as chic evening attire, but Saint Laurent's Smokings emerged onto the haute couture catwalk at a time when women in trousers were still routinely refused entrance to fashionable restaurants.
As we noted a few days ago, this minor brouhaha had certain parallels to the Curse of the Billy Goat, which claims that the Chicago Cubs haven't won the World Series in over a century because they refused entrance to a fan who was trying to bring his goat.
Diego Centonze recalls being upset when, after obtaining his medical degree, he was refused entrance to train as a neurologist at his first-choice university in Rome, Italy.
