Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montana. Passing through Wyoming, the Brown Derby was greeted by Republican Governor Frank C. Emerson and gazed at (from a hotel window) by aged Republican Senator Francis E. Warren. Democratic Senator John B. Kendrick was off in the wilds, campaigning...
...thrilling tale which Author Preedy tells in all the sharp contrast of two disparate natures. With ingenious charm he answers an enigma of European history, enriching it with intriguing rogues, loyal soldiers, a soothsayer, an acrid duchess, and a golden-haired damsel who sets a light at her bedroom window...
...still more hypnotic state, Ma'm'selle moved dazedly to the cashier's window, cashed the chip for its stamped value of 100,000 francs ($4,000), and tottered out under Deauville's big moon...
...could determine. It was clumsily translated and five out of six of its players staggered about the stage with moans and agonies, glaring, and thumping the furniture with their heavy hands. A feeble-minded virgin, seeing a young lieutenant looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair at the opera, she called it a consummation. But when someone came down the passage past her door that night, she thought something more would be in order...
...tame the shrew. This time it (Jack Holt) is an engineer, though neither rod, bob nor transit appears in the Arizona locale. He abducts Judith (Nancy Carroll) because she won a bet with her cronies that she could make Engineer Randolph propose in a week. Hidden behind a window are the losing cronies who at the proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer. The abduction, done in a spirit of fun and platonically, comes close to Serious Consequences when a half-breed steals both abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks...