Word: windowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boris cast an anxious eye out of the S Street window. It looked like rain. Boris is a Serbian who lost his last name in the war. He works as valet for a big, thickset, friendly-faced engineer whose friends and helpers all call him The Chief...
...downpour engulfed them on the way down Pennsylvania Avenue. Sodden and drippy were bunting and flags. But spectators in the stands, huddling under newspapers and umbrellas, cheered plentifully nevertheless. From an upstairs window along the way, Dr. Arthur James Barton, southern Baptist, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and a band of prohibitors representing 29 other national organizations-the U. S. Drys, Consolidated (see p. 16)-looked down upon their Wet-Dry President with great satisfaction...
...Last week, motoring to Calhoun, Ga., with her grandson, Mrs. Felton, now 94, was flung against the back window of the car when it crashed another. She, the only one hurt, sat calmly while physicians worked on her face for two hours, staunching her wounds and putting in 20 stitches. *"Little Flower" in Italian...
...diversified are the Geddes' talents that they prevent inclusive labelling. He has written and designed an Indian epic-drama called Thunderbird. He originated the square lettering seen in the advertising of Dodge motorcars. The modernist trend of store-window decorating owes much of its momentum to Mr. Geddes' early influence. He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries. He was co-architect of Manhattan's new Guild Theatre. When Producer Max Reinhardt staged The Miracle in the U. S., Mr. Geddes transformed the theatre into a Gothic sanctuary which cast a mediaeval and holy glamor on the nunneries. Now, among...
...also a great athlete. He has his best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite de la Motte) who, drooping like a flower, dies in his arms. First swordsman of France, D'Artagnan snatches from the dark tower by the river the betrayed king with his sad, muzzled face. Best shot: the four...