Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material out the studio window, retaining only three Herbert songs. What remains is a queer blend of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Laurel & Hardy, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That the result makes no sense whatever in no way diminishes the fun of Babes in Toyland. Ollie Dee (Hardy) and Stannie Dum (Laurel...
...better be pretty damn careful," growled General Johnson. "Nobody said a word to me about anything of this kind, and if they did I'd throw them out the window...
...radical who keeps his politics out of his art. With excellent line and considerable humor he shows the daily routine of the Spanish people to whom he has devoted his life. Among his best plates : a naked toothsome young wife kissing her lover through the bars of a window while her fat husband snoozes with his back turned; two bewildered young Basques showing their humble bundles, their passports at a frontier railroad station; a fat Madrid dandy getting a shoe shine at a café; a chunky street acrobat holding a whale of a woman high in the air with...
...position he will, among other things, be responsible for the physical inspection of all U. S. vessels in his district, the inspection and examination of all life-saving equipment, licensed officers, able seamen and lifeboat men. On his nights ashore he loves to sit for hours at a window smoking his pipe and watching traffic. His wife, whom he met when she was a guest at the captain's table, does not permit him to drive in it. It makes him too nervous...
...moved slowly up the Island of Manhattan, Lord & Taylor's followed. In the 1850's the store was on Grand Street, where the "carriage trade" rolled smartly up to its doors. When the President-elect visited the city in 1861, the World reported: "A large bow window at Lord & Taylor's well-known establishment was entirely filled with ladies. ... As Mr. Lincoln was passing they rose en masse, waved their cambric welcome and gave utterance to as hearty cheers as are often heard from a broader-chested and stronger-lunged people...