Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective," the local German bigwig. She is even unhistorically rescued at the end, after being condemned to death. One touch...
...mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island, swims across the East River, rescues his mistress from a reformatory and commits suicide by jumping out of a hotelroom window. These activities suggest to the heroine of All of Me that the least she can do for her engineer is to follow him to Colorado where all the running water is in dams...
Occupants of rooms surrounding Dunster House courtyard were startled last night about 9 o'clock when a burning sofa hurtled from a fourth floor window in F entry onto the pavement beneath. For fifteen minutes its flames flared up from the court casting an unholy glare over the usually tranquil House and illuminating the efforts of the brave Cambridge fire ladies in their struggle against the fiercest of the elements...
...find the study a haze of smoke. With smarting eyes, their leader discerned the cause of the smoke; a sofa in the far corner was oxidizing rapidly, crackling like a good log fire on a winter's night. A consultation was held; the sofa was tossed from the window. And, as the inhabitants of Dunster jeered, the firemen danced their weird tribal dance around the blazing pyre...
...mummy, died before they reached Egypt. Lord Carnarvon's halfbrother, the Hon. Mervyn Herbert, one of the first to enter the inner tomb, died, as did the Hon. Richard Westbury, wrote "I can't stand any more horrors," jumped to his death from a window. During his funeral the hearse killed an 8-year...