Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere of a saloon, but still skoits. Chinamen burn while Chuck Connors' mob fights Steve Brodie's gang for possession of the fire hydrant--an especially humorous scene since we have as a background to this massacre a delightful picture of good-natured Swipes throwing a brick through a window, upsetting a kerosene lamp. Crowds throng the banks of the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, small boats loaded with inebriated gamblers drift in a semi-circle...
...evening of the fire Marinus van der Lubbe bought packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that...
Soldiers claimed that the first shot was fired by an officer out of his bathroom window. Promptly the soldiers blazed away with machine guns, then rushed two three-inch field guns into place and began pounding great holes in the sides of the National, property of Manhattan's Plaza Operating...
...little as sixty-nine cents? Aren't the Powers Above aware that this nuisance is deleterious to the health? In my own case, I get one less hour of sleep each night. Think, too, of the psychological effect. It's like having a cannon go off outside your window! It usually spoils my whole morning, and I am sure I am not alone in my plight...
...broke out, and the sober looking man joined in to rescue a poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...