Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fixed the Senator some orange juice. I put it in bathroom to keep it from spilling. He was like a baby-wanted to go sleep. He turned over in bed once. I tuck him in. I went to sleep. I knew nothing-then the light started in the window. I look in his bed. He is not there. I thought he was in bathroom and call like this, Who-ooo-ooo Tom! Whoooo, Tom! He did not answer. I jump out of my bed. When I did I saw something on the floor...
...difficult position," mused Governor Tang. "I don't even know where my troops are." Correspondents left him slumped in his great chair, staring vacantly out the window at some deer which nibbled unconcerned in the former deer park of the last Chinese Emperor. That night the distracted War Lord fled from Chengteh to no man knew where...
...Last week Owner Quinn gloomily announced that he had sold his team, for an unspecified price estimated at $1,000,000, to Thomas Austin Yawkey, Manhattan sportsman. Said Quinn: "I have been carrying for many years a load that would make most men jump out of a 14th story window. I tried and spent plenty of money to build up the Red Sox. I failed and I apologize...
Painter Hayden, war veteran and former mail carrier, was earning his living as a window washer and scrubman on Park Avenue when he won his first art prize, $400 and a gold medal, in 1926. His employer added $3,000 and sent him abroad to study. Painter Hayden managed to make the $3,400 last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus...
...signs of receding prosperity. Dishonesty was largely responsible for the failure of eighty percent of Chicago's banks, was entirely responsible for the unsavory investigation of New York banking houses. When the mighty have fallen so low; it is small wonder that the depositor hastens to the teller's window...