Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caused a store in Monrovia, Calif. to stick this sign in its window: "Pre-Technocracy Clearance Sale...
...Plymouth, Vt. Miss Aurora Pierce, longtime Coolidge housekeeper, heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...
That night the body of Calvin Coolidge lay on its own bed in its own room. Outside the window a half moon played tricks with night mists rising from the Mount Tom Meadows. Beyond the mist and the moonlight a people mourned the loss of its greatest private citizen, its only ex-President. . . . Smith College girls, just back from holidays, went to the Calvin Theatre as usual, saw Under-Cover Man on the screen. Northampton's Mayor Bliss announced that the city's merchants would draw their shades but keep their doors open during the funeral. Said...
Inside the palace at that instant Little Tsar Boris and Alexander Malinoff, president of the assembly, were trying to pick a successor for Premier Nicolas Mouscha-noff. just resigned. CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! A volley of shots rattled the tall windows. His Majesty and his minister scampered to the tall portieres just in time to see the hunting dogs, yelping furiously, disappear in the distance while the hunters, the editor and his bodyguards blazed blindly away. Out from their sentry hutches dashed the royal guards to open fire on both parties indiscriminately. A policeman and a window watcher...
...told. "An hour would be more like it," he snapped back. *Buick's innovation of last year, "Wizard Control," was engineered by the Bragg-Kliesrath division of Bendix Aviation Corp. This year's selling feature, ''No-Draft Ventilation"-panels opening outward like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good. Another GM development for 1933 is a regulator to adjust the spark to the octane-content of gasoline, to ensure complete...