Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Blackmer's passport was taken from him last year on a train between Nice and Marseilles, the U.S. consular agent who obtained the passport did so by the trick of impersonating a French police official. La Presse said that the agent slipped the passport out the train window to a colleague on the platform. La Presse said that the colleague on the platform was the U. S. Consul at Nice. Also, La Presse related an episode where Blackmer was supposed to have been invited ("lured") to a yacht for tea, where he would have been seized...
...situation was best described in a political cartoon of the moment: A valet, perched precariously on a window-ledge and peeking in through a lighted window at a damsel within, gestured excitedly to a gallant standing below. Another gallant was striding off down the street, having evidently refused the invitation. The gallant under the window eyed his departing peer. What...
...Frankfort and started walking toward the edifice. Halfway through the grounds stands a fountain, the overflow of which had only partly frozen on the path. As the three men turned aside to avoid the sludge, five rifle shots were fired with terrible deliberation and enormous echoes from a lower window of the capitol. One of the men near the fountain collapsed, mortally wounded...
...didn't know where I was. I didn't know my own name. When I looked out of the window at the landscape it looked dark and unfamiliar. Nobody will ever know how I struggled with myself to remember things. It took me 48 hours before I could win back enough reason to know I was Gene...
...Turkish super-submarines, recently completed by a Dutch shipyard, were welcomed into Turkish waters amid pomp. The Ghazi, the Victorious One, stood at a window of the Dolma-Baghtche Palace on the Bosphorus, and watched through field glasses while the Turkish flag was hoisted aboard the submarines...