Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason why Pullman sleepers ride headfirst. . . . The time came for the porter to make up our berths. Seeing that all of them were made up with the head forward, I determined to be different, rode feetfirst, awoke in the morning with a heavy deposit of cinders from the open window in my eyes, ears, mouth, nose...
...Deal, but last week the 50 tycoons had to be placated. Council Chairman Henry Plimpton Kendall called at the White House to explain that his fellow tycoons felt that: 1) their advice did not appear to be very much needed and they feared they were being used as political window-dressing; 2) by contrasting their support with the Chamber of Commerce's criticism, the President had given the impression that they were currying favor at the White House; 3) their opinions on the New Deal had not been properly explained, since, of several reports they had submitted, only...
Reproached by his streetwalker sweetheart (Margot Grahame) for his failure to support her, Gypo chances to see, in the window of a grimy travel agency, a poster advertising passage to America for ?10. This puts him in mind of another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates...
...Boston's Back Bay where lay his crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John opened his door and saw a hallful of flames...
...sister Ellen was asleep in the rear, I screamed but the more I screamed I got choked with smoke so I stopped screaming. The flames came into my room. I just had my pajamas on. I could not get to my sisters and then I opened the front window and heard the fire engines coming...