Word: window
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, as is his custom, Wilfred hopped about on the local rector's lawn, nibbled many a grassblade. One-half of Wilfred belonged to Robert Timlinson, the rector's son, one-half to his daughter Kathleen, aged 6. His Majesty, riding out to hunt, passed the window where Kathleen lay recovering from a long illness. Kindly...
...class saloon car, knew not that Arthur J. ("Emperor") Cook, famed "red hot" Communist Secretary of the Coal Miners Federation, was riding a few cars behind, in a third class carriage. As the train drew in to Liverpool Street Station, Mr. Cook, facetious, bowed elaborately from his third class window as a cheer echoed for Edward of Wales. Queried "Emperor" Cook of scandalized newsgatherers: "Is this respect for the Prince or for the 'Emperor...
...breathing rapidly, blushed furiously. The voice was so pleasant. "I wagered $400," continued the mask, "that I would enter your room. If you'll turn out the light. . . ." Suddenly collecting herself, one of the girls snapped the switch, "I'll go." A black shape glided out the window; the two girls lay whispering for hours. In the morning, a house detective found a velvet mask, a revolver, in the trunk of one Eric Nelson, British, in the cubicle overhead. Disorderly Mr. Nelson was arrested...
...laud) into the question of how much "success" Queen Wilhelmina has achieved during the quarter century of her reign. Mr. Bok saw much, and what he saw was good. Last week he conveyed to the Queen whose sovereignty he escaped by "Americanization" a memento of esteem-a stained glass window for the Nieuwe Kirk at Delft. By Mr. Bok's command Dutch Artist W. A. von Konynemburg will paint Her Majesty upon glass "in various symbolic attitudes, as the embodiment of all the cardinal virtues...
...body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist, a printer. This printer had been arrested for de- portation during the anti-Red hysteria. The man had jumped or been pushed from a 14th floor window. Anarchist Vanzetti, having read the news, joked little that morning with the housewives. "At the same time, Nicola Sacco was working in Stoughton on an edging machine at the Three K's shoe factory. . . , He had a pretty wife and a little son named Dante. There was another baby coming...