Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards Jackson, it is true that he did, acting on Mrs. McCormick's orders, fetch a ladder with the help of Farmer Gay and subsequently entered the Duke de La Tremoille's room through the window. Long previously by shouting and throwing stones at the window I had sought to rouse the Duke if he were there. Behind the window curtains Jackson found little smoke, no fire. The room was empty, the lights lit and the door to the corridor closed. The Duke had unfortunately left his room without attempting to escape by the window, and tried instead...
Death and injury came in curious ways. A New Jersey fireman, knocked into a drift by a fire hose, lay there unconscious until his fellows discovered him, a solid block of ice. A Long Islander tried to get home, found he could not make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island...
...taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson and Oglethorpe. In a Miami store window a pair of Primo Camera's giant clodhoppers stood filled with pennies-offering a pair of free tickets to this week's Camera-Tommy Loughran championship fight to whoever guessed most accurately their contents...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...
...performed with examplary industry; each legend is tracked down to its written origin, and for the commoner of them he has provided a wealth of chronological tables and documentation. The most tenacious of the legends represented Virgil as an humiliated lover, suspended in a basket from his mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger...