Word: framed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brayed and rumbled close by. But the opened window, 16 floors above the din, was just an anonymous rectangle of light-one of thousands held by the city's glowing towers against the black sky. No one in the streets noticed the man who was silhouetted in its frame. No one saw him start his long, tumbling drop to the street...
...whenever any of the boys broke her cardinal rule: "Don't fight among yourselves. You must depend on each other." By mowing lawns, selling papers, and other odd jobs, and paying heed to "Mother," the Marshes made ends meet. In six years Mother Marsh bought a white frame house...
Otherwise, the sale will not change things much for the Marshes; they will still run the company. For Mother Marsh things will change even less. She still lives in the same white frame house in New Philadelphia. On Christmas Eve this year, she will do what she has always done for her grown-up brood: make them a batch of fudge, serve it around the tree, then lead a chorus of Silent Night before sending them...
...backboards. "That's one of the reasons why we're starting Prior," he pointed out yesterday. "Bill looked good clearing the boards against Navy and maybe he can get us started on the right foot against Dartmouth." Barclay added that the Crimson wasn't in the right frame of mind Saturday at Annapolis...
These implications are capably handled by Miss Bacon, but they are often too heavy a burden for the frail frame of her novel. Still, as a first novel, A Star Called Wormwood is a notable performance...