Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often seen but seldom heard about the Capitol is Representative Walter Marcus Pierce. He frequently sits in the front row of the House with a heavy gold watch chain garlanded across what, in the days of Roosevelt I, would have been jocularly called his bay window. Formerly he was Governor of Oregon. His present wife and secretary is Oregon's former State Librarian. At 73, he is slightly deaf and his voice quavers, but he has a great air of wisdom. He also has six children (by his first wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting...
...true Don Quixote actually lives in the tall, spare-frame of Feodor Chaliapin. Singing little, but acting much, he has recreated the lovable old idiot. Nothing could be more purposefully ridiculous than the skeleton-like Chaliapin, with his wild hair and corkscrew beard, crawling out of an attic window buttocks up to find himself facing his pursuers--in his nightshirt. Nor could anything be more pathetically humorous than the armor-clad knight as he revolves in a large circle slowly about the windmill, stuck fast in one of the sails. And so scene after vivid scene until from the flames...
...rear window of a honeymooners' automobile, Henry settles himself in an attitude of patient expectancy...
Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days...
...Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered body from the street a letter was found in his apartment. "I cannot face the tangle," it read. "Had they let me know a month ago I would have been fit enough to clear up their affairs...