Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best side of the bargin are the asture book buyers. No Nero judging slaves ever assumed a more majestic and disdainful attitude than the average second-hand bookstore proprietor. With a regal gesture he dismisses book after book, apparently ignorant of the fact that in his window is emblazoned the legend--"All Your books bought here". Grudgingly, almost in a philanthopic manner, he will offer six pence for a volume which will appear bravely on his stalls next fall marked one dollar--reduced from three. And the slaughter of the innocents continues...
...blaze is believed to have been caused by a match carelessly thrown from the window into the narrow space dividing the frame building of the Traymore from the brick structure of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Flames suddenly burst through the wall of the restaurant and sent the diners scattering to the street. Firemen fought for half an hour to get the blaze under control...
...there was no Mary, no lamb, there might not have even been a May-flower, a Plymouth Rock, a Jonah, a, may one suggest it, a purple window. Tradition wavered before the onslaught of science. And then came sanity. For this morning the slowest wits of Boston had realized the truth. The Athenaeum had merely played a joke with its story about the non-existence of Mary. A great, great, great etc, grandson of the lamb had told the truth. He had a picture of his ancestors. And there was Mary right beside him. The sun shines once more...
...decayed. Toads had nosed their way in. Idly, aimlessly, the swaying shawl swung to and fro. . . . Poppies sowed themselves among the dahlias; the lawn waved with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation flowered among the cabbages; while the gentle tapping of a weed at the window had become, on winters' nights, a drumming from sturdy trees and thorned briers which made the whole room green in summer...
Today we want a mile of wire fencing eight feet high, 40 vacuum cleaners, and window curtains for 145 windows, all different. Yesterday there were 2,500 mosquito screens for the Business School; 12,000 napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right...