Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a matter as this one would think a word to the wise sufficient. Let me warn the unsuspecting, however; it is not. I speak from personal experience. He who opens a window is an enemy of society. Not only will the window be closed at once, but the unfortunate person who opened it will have incurred the lasting enmity of his fellows. We cannot hope to open a window in Widener. What we can do is to see that the ventilating system, installed at great cost when the building was erected, but never used for lack of funds...
...remember when the seniors used to come down here to the station after graduation and throw each other through the car windows; it would get down to where only two or three were left, then the others would come out of the cars and throw the last ones in and they got a lot of fun out of it; catch any senior nowdays throwing or being thrown through a window...
...twelve in Chicago were the first recruits of a force of Orientals whom the Pullman Co. might be mobilizing to dissolve a unique racial monopoly. Pullman officers "scouted" the notion; declared that Orientals, while deft as club car waiters, lack the physique required in a luggage-lugging, berth-boosting, window-opening Pullman porter...
Midnight Gift. A pomegranate hurtled, one night last week, through the bedroom window of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. When pouncing police collared the fruit thrower he pleaded tipsily: "L'l gift! L'l present, my lasht pomegranate...
...cocked his feet on his desk, indicating that the audience was at a close. My last view of the Master, as he has been called by the janitor of Randolph Hall, was of him gazing up at the feet passing by his window seeing . . . who knows what...