Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sickly sister, the village spinster who envied youth and health and beauty, Adrienne was starved for drama. She could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer flowers filled her with longing, but her neighbor kept to himself. Adrienne tossed sleeplessly at night, traced listlessly the immutable pattern of her dull existence, suffered torments from her suspicious parent...
...Taian, near Tsinan (see p. 18) an unidentified Chinese war bullet entered the bedroom window of Mrs. William T. Hobart, a U. S. Methodist Mission worker and resulted in her death...
...evident that the persons who think that a Chinaman can not do the "baggage lugging, berth boosting, window opening" task of a Negro Pullman Porter is badly mistaken and can learn a lot about the strength and endurance of a Chinaman, by spending a week-end** out here amongst them...
...dinner in a gaudy restaurant. But, alackaday, they must leave their only wristwatch to pay the check, because Mr. Van Hook is suddenly called away. Later, he brings an engagement ring to Joan; she shows it to her true lover (a poor author), who throws it out the window and marries her. Mamie, however, picks up the ring and hooks Mr. Van Hook...
...drenching rain, comes the gypsy Nubi. And as she comes into the happy Mendez household, happiness goes out the window. For father, son and serving man in that happy Spanish household find that there is a certain something about Nubi that,--well, disturbs them. It takes one act of this play to get the said Nubi onto the stage, and two more before purity, mother love, jealousy and much more rout...