Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bowled over a few of the boys. But she staunchly denied that a popped button on her blouse had triggered the stampede. Purred Anita: she had all her buttons and only ran abreast of the crowd because "some people tried to poke their hands through the car window-for what purpose, I don't know...
...Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), a British-born Jew of Dutch parentage, was a founding father of the U.S. labor movement and first president of the A.F.L. His window, at the rear of the south nave over the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, is dedicated to artisans and craftsmen. Among the eight scenes are Noah building the Ark, the building of King Solomon's temple and the building of Washington Cathedral...
...meet her at the train. Pollyanna gurgles to the girl: "I'm glad . . . because now I've got her still coming, and I've got you besides!" When Aunt Polly coldly stows her away in a bare little bedroom in the attic, she runs to the window, takes in the view and simpers: "Oh. I'm so glad she let me have this room!" She's not really glad, she hastens to explain. She's just playing a game her father taught her, "the glad game." Object of the game: to find the silver...
...land. They said they did not have any money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping bag, let his wife out the front door, locked it and slipped through a window. Two days later they made it across the border...
...become too "big, successful and public." So in 1958, Painter Mitchell went to live in Paris. There she wages constant battle against the obtrusive image. "I don't want to see anything on the canvas," says she. "For that, I could just as well look out the window." Yet she is still "bothered by the accuracy of my painting," for paint ing should be describable in no terms but painting. "It has to mean something. But I don't know what that means...