Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, every old Timer has a burning aspiration to some day see a letter in TIME with his own signature beneath it. When his letter is printed,-he will take his copy of TIME, frame it, and hang it in his front bay-window. Then he will go to all the newsdealers in the country and buy 8 gross of TIME and scatter them broadside among his friends and relations. He will even give one to each of his mother-in-laws. Ah! How great he will be. All the people who are so fortunate as to know him will...
...certain Miss Louise Moore, 42, of Manhattan, furnished peculiar proof, last week, of the extreme spaciousness and luxury of the Augustus. Miss Moore occupied with a Miss Goebel one of the de luxe cabins. It had windows, not portholes. Miss Moore leaned out of her spacious window to enjoy the night breeze, leaned further, fell out and overboard...
Therefore Dr. Clark decided and proclaimed last fortnight. "This amount is obviously too small to be of any great value. Any child going out for recess or any stenographer going out to lunch will get more ultraviolet radiation than she could get all day behind a window of ultraviolet transmitting glass. So, although these materials have an undoubted field of usefulness in solariums, and probably in animal houses and zoos, it is unnecessary to put them in schools and offices where it would be cheaper and more efficient to send the individuals concerned out into the sunshine...
Flags and bunting flew in Topeka, Kan. An enormous portrait of the inmate was hung outside a bedroom window of a modest frame house in a leafy residential street. Citizens made holiday. Indians made whoopee. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio made a speech-and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas became formally aware that he was Number...
From elaborate exhibits in museum and department store to window displays in cheap furniture shops, "modern decorative art" has been thrust at last upon the U. S. public. Justification is now undertaken by Paul Frankl, enthusiastic creator of skyscraper dressing tables, who traces origins in Austria, Germany, and, above all, Paris, where dressmakers felt the need of new backgrounds for their simple (but oh so intricate) knee-length frocks. In a spirit of cooperation, the new decorator therefore scraps everything old (the pyramids excepted), and matches modern life with "simple rhythmic combinations of masses," and sharp color contrasts, rather than...