Word: windowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From sleepy medieval Innsbruck the local Italian consul, Signer Riccardi, telephoned tempestuously last week to Rome. Austrian students, he cried, had just wrenched down the flag of Italy from its staff before his window. The vandals! The Austrian swine! They were tearing the tricolor to tatters, spitting on it, fouling it -the voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight...
Near Lexington, Ky., A. G. Bush, veteran railroad engineer, was driving along in his engine, pulling a train. He sneezed suddenly, at which his false teeth fell out of the window...
Last week, in Manhattan, John S. Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, saw a picture in a window which aroused his righteous rage. The picture was the celebrated Andromache at the Siege of Troy, by Antoine Georges Marie Rochegross. Grotesque and terrible, it depicts Hector's wife at the moment when she is being dragged away from Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When...
...manager of the Imperial Hotel in which Mr. Levy's store is located reinforced Mr. Sumner's objections. Andromache was speedily removed from the window...
Such income and earnings provided "window dressing" for refinancing Lane Bryant, Inc.'s capital structure. President Harry Liverman of the Corporation and Mrs. Lane Bryant Malsin (second vice- president), her eldest son Raphael B. Malsin (secretary),? and others, the middle of May notified the Secretary of State of Delaware that the company had increased the number of its no-par-value shares from...