Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stillman's lips went thin with fury. She picked up a plate and flung it at a tall crank-grinder in a fantastic sweater. It landed amid the punch glasses with dreadful effect. Another plate tinkled through a window. The cameras stopped clicking but Mrs. Stillman hurled more plates, glasses, round epithets. She managed to score at least two direct hits before the intruders hurdled the table and escaped...
Officials of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, having learned the health value of special window glasses that permit the passage of ultraviolet sun light (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1), ordered 18 stories of their new bank building now going up at Broad & Wall Streets, Manhattan, glazed throughout with this glass...
Billy was drawing the window curtains apart and asking Dr. Watson if he wanted to see the people across the street who were watching them. "Watson had taken a step forward when the bedroom door opened, and the long, thin form of Holmes emerged, his face pale and drawn, but his step and bearing as active as ever. With a single spring he was at the window, and had drawn the blind once more...
...Straton, "an attractive brunet woman" who speaks with a decided Southern accent (she comes from Atlanta), sat in a rocking-chair by the bedroom window darning black stockings...
When wealthy city people move to the country for the summer, their homes, though usually closed, do not remain untenanted. The furniture may be clothed in white muslin dust suits; only the window-buzzing of imprisoned flies may break the silence of the shaded rooms; but in the vacant dwellings a host of people and personages continue their existence without regard to season-smiling the same smiles, making the same gestures, staring perennially in fixed directions...