Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday morning he will arise in his S Street home as usual, put on his cutaway, have breakfast, scan his speech once more. Fidgety, he may peek out the window to see who is coming up the street. Finally, up will drive Senator Moses and Representative Tilson, the Congressional Committee, in a hired car. At 10:30 Mr. Hoover will put on his silk hat and drive off with them down Connecticut Avenue. Thereafter the schedule will be as follows...
Upstairs. When the President awakens in his four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
...from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows and necessitating window bars for safety...
During the week the King-Emperor was able to rise, take a few halting steps, and sit at a window. He said he was eager to go "home" (to Sandringham...
Some of the laborers pointed to gold-lettered window announcements which proclaimed that City Trust Co. was a depository of the U. S. government, of the state and city of New York. Some of the laborers thought that therefore the U. S., the state, and the city were guaranteeing deposits. Others, less naïve, were selling their bankbooks at 50 cents on the dollar...