Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...robin attack a windowpane for over a period of two months. His efforts so exhausted him that he would lie on the ground for hours without moving and his beak was bloody from continually striking it against the pane. We tried pulling the shade clown and soaping the window to no effect; a mirror placed against the pane, so that he got a good full view of himself, excited him neither more nor less. Unlike the Kansas City robin (TIME, March 27) he had no mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half-finished nest...
...heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and Kellogg, Italy's Augusto Rosso, proud of his "Americanism." waited his turn. So did Belgium's May, gazing wistfully out the window at the Victory monument of the A. E. F.'s First Division.* Other callers included Spain's de Cardenas, Sweden's Bostrom, Czechoslovakia's Veverka, Denmark's Wadsted...
...window washing service, composed of students who made up the snow shovelling crew this winter, has been formed by the Student Employment Office, it was announced last night by J. M. Swigert, assistant secretary for student employment. Over 300 letters have been sent out, to prospective customers...
...employment office furnishes all the equipment, which consists of a red pail, chamois skin, sponge, and soap, and states that it will have a man on the job one hour after notification. The workers are to be trained by an experienced window-washer, and will receive $.50 per hour, with a minimum charge...
...suspects, arrive at no conclusions. Finally the outlaws of the town-pickpockets, forgers, cardsharps, safe-blowers, burglars, beggars, all of them under closer scrutiny than usual because of the child murders-form a furtive posse. The next time you see the murderer he is staring into a cutlery shop window. There, framed in knives, he sees reflected the figure of a little girl behind him. He turns around and starts toward her, whistling the tune that is connected in his sick mind with what he wants...