Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April was in the air, as the Vagabond stood at the open window, sniffling hungrily at the smells of departing winter and newborn Spring. The soft breeze blew in from the Charles, itself as yet frozen over, with dirty gray ice, and he stretched himself slowly, thoroughly, like a cat that has just woken up. A slow smile of perfect bliss came over his face, and of a sudden he collapsed, purring, onto the sofa...
...sufficient in other subjects. When an undergraduate tries to pass the Cerberus guarding the stacks he is rebuffed, and it is even difficult for a faculty member to get permission for him. Once in the music stacks, the facilities are overwhelming. A single desk below a basement window without an electric light is the sum total...
...lodge on his father's farm at Berwyn Heights, Md., Douglas Schall, son of Minnesota's blind Senator Thomas David Schall, was poring late over his Georgetown University law books. Sniffing smoke, he looked out the window of his second-story room, saw flames licking up from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they...
...doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called his city desk, gave the verdict...
...Height is just an optical illusion," continued this man to whom altitude means nothing. "Anyone can look out of a 20 story window, but take the wall away and no one will go within ten feet of the edge. Tack a cotton cloth along that edge and people will bravely step up to it again...