Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly no Lubitsch trick that the lush countess, who at one point considers planting a dagger in her Hungarian's back, ends by dragging him briskly off to say "I do" to a priest, while snowflakes flutter past the window. The "nice-kid-after-all" formula is what the Grable public loves, and that is what it gets...
...mistress, a solid, grey-haired woman named Mrs. Frank Goldfuss, looked out an upstairs window, saw him, called for her husband. The couple ran downstairs, backed out their car, drove around the block and intercepted the robber. "You hurt our dog," screamed Mrs. Goldfuss. "I'm going to call a cop." Fox yanked out his pistol, aimed it at her, pulled the trigger. It failed to fire. Goldfuss leaped out and jumped...
With the Folks. Two days after the primary, Boss Crump permitted himself to be interviewed by bellowing down answers from his second-floor bedroom window. Would he attempt a comeback...
Solemnly Yo Ho. Lovey looked like Julius Caesar, and behaved like him whenever possible. When guests were, in the house, breakfasting on the terrace, she appeared above, them, framed in the bathroom window, and lectured them for an hour or so, "as impressive as Mussolini addressing his massed followers." Her favorite song was The Trail of the Lonesome Pine; but she was nearly as devoted to a radio commercial, "Yo ho yo ho yo ho yo ho, we are the makers of Wonder Bread." Cryptograms fascinated her too; she could never have enough of her favorite...
...Guard. In Glendale, Calif., Albin Nelson complained that his neighbor, Miss A. C. Madsen, not only kept him awake all night while she listened to the Republican Convention, she stuck a hose through the window and squirted him when he tuned in the Democrats...