Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs Bummer and Lazarus free. He rode as an honored guest on coastwise steamship lines, at tended in a front row seat all sessions of the Legislature at Sacramento. Few were heartless enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under the reign of Herbert Hoover, were solemnly printed in newspapers. Banks cashed his modest, worthless checks and people took his imperial banknotes bearing...
...remember it all as if it happened yesterday," said Papa Semiz. "It was there in that corner, just against the window, that Gavrilo Princip sat just 20 years ago while he waited for my clock to strike the hour...
...accord. The motor's fan becomes a propeller as the imp flies the engine down into chassis. It was Mr. Ford's own idea to have the imp sucked out of the automobile body by "No-draft ventilation," to make him throw a nut at a window which does not shatter. With a flourish of trumpets, 4,999 changes into 5,000. As the grimacing imp changes back into an insignia the cinema closes with a happily synchronized major chord...
Died. Robert Remen Arnold, 36, State Capitol reporter for the Albany Evening News; from a fractured skull caused by falling from a second-story window at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), where he was attending his 18th class reunion...
...During the review which followed Mussolini gave each section the Roman salute while Hitler bowed to each from the hips. Since the German could say nothing in Italian the speech of the day was made by Il Duce from a balcony while Der Führer retired behind a window. "Chancellor Hitler and I have not met to remake the map of the world!" shouted the Great Orator with his favorite trick