Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx. N. Y., Arline Robertson, 10. bouncing on her bed. bounced through a window, fell live stories, fractured her skull...
...table on which appeared all the evidences of a well-spent evening, even to a tempting-looking lemon rind in one of the glasses. In the way of wall hangings the decorator had draped a tapestry over the bulletin board, and above it in a neat row along the window-sill were arranged the contents of a well-stocked library. The personal touch in these decorations had been achieved by the presence of a sponge doggy peering down from the mail...
...potent places. As a penurious but presentable gentleman at Charles II's court he found favor with the Duchess of Cleveland, one of the King's own. Once, nearly caught in the act by his royal rival, Churchill jumped featly out of the Duchess's bedroom window. ''Delighted with his daring and address, she presented him with ?5.000." Biographer Churchill admits his ancestor took the cash but weighs carefully the often-repeated rumor that canny John, instead of blowing in these sinful wages, salted them away as the first deposit toward his future fortune. When...
...down to New Haven in two cars. They had scouted the scene of the crime a long time before and had had their plans all made out. Every one was at the game, and Pachs Studio, where their sought-after prize lay, was deserted. They entered by jimmying a window on an inside court and gained their objective, the room where the section of fence stood. The Yale captain's picture was to be taken standing against it, as the Hefflefingers, the Mallorys, and others had been. The criminals wrapped their booty in burlap and, to add a sardonic note...
...Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors for cutting off coat tails, cigar butts and assorted bells. Assigned to pry into the affairs of Groucho, they begin by rolling a peanut stand under his window, making such a disturbance that to keep them quiet he makes Harpo his chauffeur, appoints Chico secretary of war. In the course of conducting their "spy business," Harpo finds three opportunities to run after young women. Chico successfully restrains him. When Chico is tried by Freedonia's supreme court...