Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other time the operator was so close to shore a farmer pulled the 'chute out with a fence rail- a stick about 14 ft. long. I had a rider catch his 'chute on a cornice and swing into a lawyer's office window on the second floor, and the bag came down on the high tension wires which of course destroyed it and put several towns in darkness. I also had a lady rider come down on some high tension wires. Thought she might strike them so telephoned and had power shut off. She said...
...daily custom, I went to the Palace and into the sleeping quarters of the President at 5:15 to waken him for his daily exercise, massage and bath; and told him that Armando Andre had been shot a few hours before by "sawed-off" shot guns, through an open window in a house opposite his home, as he was trying to get his latch-key into the keyhole, which was jambed full of cut-off tooth picks. Machado exclaimed "No! That can't be true! It is not possible! Did you see it?" I replied that...
Because the shoulder of George V, 68. was too sore with rheumatism to bear the weight of gold epaulets. Edward of Wales plunged himself into a black bearskin beehive, waved goodbye to his father who watched from a palace window in a grey sack suit and panama hat, and took the salute at the traditional Trooping the Color on the King's birthday. All in scarlet & blue the Brigade of Guards marched stiffly past, Coldstreams, Grenadiers, Scots, Irish and Welsh. The Life Guards and the Blues rode by in their glittering breastplates, and at their ancient post of honor...
...feeling is shaken when her caddish friend's wife meets and claims him as the liner docks. Persistent, he appears later in Paris where a Frenchman pushes him through a window. In the ensuing turmoil, Suitor Morgan turns up, no sooner, no later than the audience expects...
Died. Major Thomas Halbert Russell, 53, president of Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va.; when he flumped from a third-story window of Lankenau Hospital; in Philadelphia, Pa. Afflicted with anemia, toxemia and low blood pressure, he had been hospitalized for ten days...