Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various reasons by Republican statesmen in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
...West New York, N. J., at a rubber plant, a fire occurred which destroyed the lives of 23 cats which, like the plant, belonged to one Charles Cholerton. One only of all Charles Cholerton's cats escaped; a smoky grimalkin, she came slinking from a fiery window, her eyes lit with warm red fury...
Lampy has dressed himself up in a new-grass green, and with this appropriate Easter finery steps forth for all the world to view. And, it must be owned, he cuts not a bad figure. In fact, if one's window be open to any of the vagrancies of early spring in Cambridge, one will find the Jester in a delightful mood, albeit a few of the stories and jokes he has for you are distinctly not after his best manner. There are, however, a sufficient number of high spots in his present repertoire to render the ensemble a product...
...drafted soldiers are not, fortunately, ever allowed an access to the stage; there are no mob scenes or speeches from the window. But the sound of the soldiers' voices is heard and their fifers play gay tunes in the expectation of disaster. A sputter of rockets goes up, at night, for a last and tragic parade. Confused, threatening, alive, these sounds sift into the shadowed room which is the stage; a room in which there has been caught, by some soft and secret charm of writing, by the clever playing of Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney, the intimate mystery...
...lines are low and rakish. The lower part of the body is green with a belt of yellow and-red striping around the door and window molding. The rear seat in the passenger compartment is large enough to accommodate three fares. There is a single folding seat in a recess well forward where the right hand forward seat of a pleasure car would come. The extra room gives the fourth passenger plenty of space for his legs . . . the running board is not wide enough to accommodate a trunk, nor is there any trunk rack in the rear...