Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading newspaper gossip or seeing John Coolidge's picture in the papers you are wrong. I have seen him several times, I have shaken hands with him once, and I have heard of a "smart" and kind thing he once did. An old lady could not get the window up in a street car, but John Coolidge borrowed an iron rod from the conductor and pried the window open. I have heard this for a fact...
...Several years ago", said Dr. Grenfell, 'I was staying in Cambridge only a short while and returning from a dance, was trying to find the club where I was spending the night. I thought that I had found the right house and, was stealthily entering a window so as not to awaken the people who were already in bed, when the lights suddenly went on and a nervous man with a revolver ordered me to 'Put them...
...Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window panes in 1927 and 1928, meteorologists must predict defeat for Republicans...
...clock this afternoon in Harvard 3, Mr. B. F. Wright will speak on Sociological Jurisprudence--"a window-dressing title," says Mr. Wright, "for some remarks on the newer tendencies in American law, procedural and substantive." It has suggested itself to the Vagabond as he was musing on the meaning of those two crisp and noble words Sociological Jurisprudence--that the "signs wit hindications" are pointing to the need for speedy changes in American law. Much might be said of the sociological aspects of the recent much bruited crime wave--the Vagabond is not going to say anything about them. Much...
...Window Panes?Russian lovelight shining through...