Word: windowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snow sifted down upon the Alban and the Sabine hills, one night last week; and when a pink dawn came Pope Pius XI was seen to look out early from his palace window at the pinky snow...
...meanwhile, a fattish prima donna, went from Max, the queasy composer who took his inspiration glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over the radio and set the police on him. Desperately then Jonny tried for escape. He bought a ticket for Amsterdam. He would go back home and "never leave the dear White Way again...
...relics were excavated in back of the present Harvard Hall. Among them are bricks of odd shapes, one of them an oval ornament for a window, a run flint, the bone handle of a lady's parasol, a broken barometer, and fragments of the long clay pipes that were in vogue in the heyday of the old building...
...Maurrant pokes her head out of a second-story window. There is talk of the heat and Mrs. Jones, on the porch, asks Mrs. Maurrant to come down and have a chat. ''Well, maybe I will," says Mrs. Maurrant. She withdraws from the window frame and while she is coming downstairs Mrs. Jones asks Mrs. Fiorentino if it isn't awful, the way Mrs. Maurrant is carrying on with that Sankey, who collects money for the Borden milk people. Mrs. Maurrant appears and there is banal chatter. Mr. (Third Floor) Buchanan, whose wife is in laboring pains, says...
Maurrant appears, drunk. He has changed his mind about the Stamford trip. Instinctively he looks upstairs, becomes insanely enraged. Sammy tries, ineffectually, to stop Maurrant's rush to the second floor There are screams and bellowing curses. Maurrant and Sankey struggle at the window, Maurrant at Sankey 's throat. There are shots. A crowd collects at the door. Maurrant escapes. Sankey is dead. Mrs. Maurrant opens her eyes only once...