Word: window
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passers-by told Sheehan that they saw smoke coming out of an upstairs window in the house, and while he ran upstairs to investigate they turned in the alarm at the corner...
...Some of our country towns have lately come to have a Continental look," wrote the editor of the British Lancet last week, "for every morning every window is filled with bedding hung out to air in the sunshine. The scene is cheerful, but the householders are depressed; for the habit of bedwetting, in guests who are likely to stay a long time, is a serious tax on hospitality. . . . Somewhat unexpectedly, eneuresis has proved to be one of the major menaces to the comfortable disposition of evacuated urban children . . . and at a time of widespread domestic crisis we make no apology...
...birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call of a flicker, remembered the flicker's tattoo on a tree, gave a perfect rendition of it by drumming with its beak on the top of its box. "To my mind," observed the bemused...
...Ralph Rainger's and Leo Robin's songs are tuneful--"The Wind in My Window" and I've Gone Off the Deep End." Incidentally, there is a team of six young ladies who call themselves "Las Chiquitas" and look like something the management discovered in the railroad station at New Haven...
...been many a day since the Mahatma has gone to an exhibition. At 75, he is a cripple confined to his second-story bedroom in a gloomy, gaslit brownstone house on 57th Street. Eilshemius persists in sitting with his back to the window, his face turned away from the light. He shrills at visitors: "It's too late to enjoy my fame. I got bad legs...