Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. Today the Kingdom is lofting out of Depression at such a rate that the reduced income tax brought in almost exactly as much revenue as did the higher tax last year. Chancellor Chamberlain closed with a surplus of ?7,562,000 ($36,297,600) last week-best possible "window dressing" for the general election the National Government must fight soon after the Royal Jubilee...
Everywhere in Berlin citizens, on General Goring's orders, left their doors unlocked. It was fun for Nazi squads to burst in and bawl: "Citizens, your window shows a crack of light! Darkness is the order! See you aren't caught again!" Most fun, however, was attending to the shop of Weber...
Weber's time switch failed to work. Scarcely had 10 o'clock struck before the street was full of furious Nazis. They smashed Weber's window and his lights, then sloshed buckets of black paint over his dainty dress goods, daubed the whole shop and made matclhwood of the counters. "When you consider," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment next morning, "that in the entire city of Berlin only this Jew, this unspeakable Weber, had to be dealt with, the vast obscuration maneuvers can be called an entire success...
Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges in February 1841, died in December 1919 at Cagnes-sur-Mer in the south of France. His first job was painting copies of 18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter...
...College have stumbled over the surprise stop at the basement entrances to University Hall. Miss Piacope, the charming information Secretary, has amassed a respectable vocabulary of the less polite and more emphatic expressions in our language from the muttered exclamations of persons who sprawled undignifiedly in front of her window as a result of the step...