Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ibsen, while recognizing with gratitude that the fame of Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute for him "posterity," have already witnessed a greater number of showings of each...
...body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs, and one of the tragedies of her life was the death of her favorite borzoi, who jumped thirty feet out of an open window and broke his neck in a vain attempt to reach her side...
Show. Adjoining the meeting hall was a medical exhibit. Medical literature, pharmaceutical products, surgical supplies, health foods vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...
...fire to his own home and left for Manhattan. The police were to find the bones of the drugged boarder charred beyond all recognition; Mrs. Lawson was then to collect her husband's $75,000 insurance. But the boarder regained consciousness in time to jump out of a window; and Mr. Lawson went to jail...
...Klux Klan, one reads, is dying out. Either this statement is false, and the invisible Empire still exists in all its potency, or some one in Cambridge has committed an anachronism. In either case, the merry days of melodramatic anonymous letters and stones east through windows have returned, not only in the mystery plays so prevalent now, but in real life. A group of undergraduates is warned against holding a debate: a window is broken, and a still more threatening note received; the Cambridge police come and stand guard around the beleaguered clubhouse; a weird series of events to take...