Word: windowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who had stood near the lamp post 18 were killed. One was a woman who had stepped to her window nearby a bare instant before the explosion. At her a flying bit of iron lamp post hurtled, inflicting a mortal wound...
...landed on plateau six miles away, climbed out, went to nearby ranch, asked astonished owner for some lunch, got it. Inhabitants of Williams heard Col. Lindbergh's plane was down, rushed to plateau in automobiles, found plane unharmed, found note in Col. Lindbergh's handwriting stuck in window: "Gone to lunch...
...which leads to his own undoing. Mosca, always a step ahead of his miserly master, makes himself Volpone's heir. Not, however, heir to his avarice; Mosca opens Volpone's chest and as the curtain falls he is throwing golden coins, by the handful, out of the window, into the world. Volpone is Dudley Digges. Mosca is Alfred Lunt; out of a flawless cast, he seemed merry and at ease in this old, delicious play...
Eddie Collins hides a heart of gold under a curt manner. He won't allow his young wife to continue as typist, because silently he remembers his work-ridden mother. Bored, Dot window-shops on Eddie's forty-a-week, but Eddie refuses to buy furniture "on time." Finally they find a drab little apartment where Dot busies herself with pink ruffled curtains, neat drawers of kitchen utensils, and (rather than an abortion) "keeping her baby," to the raucous tune of "something good on the radio"-the delirious Democratic Convention of 1924. Follow the usual pangs and pains...
...deer was tame. "My little boy showed it to me through the window. My boy went out and whistled and called to it and it came to him," said one witness...