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...back had a strange air of flaccid respectability in 1950. Marty the Ox died in bed without a single bullet hole in his hide. And in the rare places where the shakedown still prevailed, it was costing a merchant as little as $1 a week to insure his plate-glass windows against a well-heaved brick. The ugly libel was afloat that Chicago had turned sissy and petty larcenous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I'm Awfully Hot | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...booth will be constructed diagonally opposite the present one. It will be 18 feet high, with a played sides for the protection of the officer inside. Sporting large plate-glass windows, with loudspeakers on top, the proposed structure will look somewhat like a land-locked lighthouse with fog horns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Square Gets New Cop Box | 10/4/1950 | See Source »

Sloth slept with his eyes wide open in a sticky skein of cobwebs, and Anger was a spiky, comic-book monster which had just smashed a blood-spattered plate-glass window. Lust, the shock of the group-as well as the bottom in bad taste-was a leering, loathsome human figure, festooned with genitalia and en-ries cased in a prophylactic tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sin in Frames | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Semi-Private Master. The plate-glass side walls were curtained to insure the fact, if not the feeling of privacy. But the second-floor "master bedroom" could be called only semiprivate; it was separated from the living room by nothing except the chimney, a flight of steps, and a heavy curtain. The master, when the curtain was drawn aside, would be able to survey a large part of his home without -'stirring "from bed, for some walls stopped short of the ceiling, as in a bathhouse, to "suggest spaciousness." However, the top of the fireplace doubled as a stair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Poor Butterfly | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Smash Hit. In Philadelphia, Raymond Palmer happily confessed to police: "I did it! I did it! It's something I've wanted to do all my life!" He had just smashed a plate-glass window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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