Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of a final ineffectual episode, the protagonist...answers with foul insults and returns determinedly to the woman he loves. At this very moment an inexplicable accident separates them forever, and the man is last seen throwing a burning tree out of the window, a large agricultural implement, an archbishop, a giraffe, feathers...
...Thorp, granddaughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was entertaining visitors when she heard footsteps above. Fluttering upstairs, Miss Thorp peeked into a bedroom just in time to see a closet door close softly. She tugged it open. Out of the closet scuttled a scared prowler to jump through the window, vanish...
...Washington State on sneak-trip, says he has confidential assurances from White House there will be no central bank, and no inflationary moves with silver. Bill is very sore, blasting New Deal right and left. . . . Borah said confidentially that his private information was the Roosevelt speech to bankers was window-dressing; he claims 'Roosevelt has sold out to the money power.' Bankers here generally laugh at the Roosevelt speech, because they are stuffed with money and Government paper and are trying every way to make loans...
...Naked Woman. The book is a case history of a wife who knows how to amuse herself with other men when her husband is out of town. When he learns of A Naked Woman's authorship, all -Philip Frampton's profound sex philosophy flies out the window. He distributes black eyes among a trio of males suspected of providing material for his wife's book, receives one himself, becomes convinced of Josie's fidelity as the curtain falls...
...loath was onetime President Deschanel of France to leave the privacy of his own railway compartment that in 1920, while relieving himself through an open window, he fell out of the train in his pajamas and ruined his political career. No such clumsy timidity bothers the little Tsar of Bulgaria. Far too poor to have a private train of his own, Boris III is apt to be all over the public trains he uses. Like the late great Albert of Belgium, Tsar Boris is an impassioned locomotive engineer, likes to spend much time in the engine cab, although...