Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews of workmen of different types at work about the buildings, which reach, as a whole, at their peak, to over 300. This includes 90 to 110 men on the grounds crew, 70 to 100 painters, and 50 to 100 carpenters, as well as many other specialists, such as window washers and chimney cleaners...
...lives on. . . . The real trouble with the railroads is the aftermath of frenzied financing and excessive overcapitalization and not bus, truck, airplane, pipeline or waterway competition. Our corporation, unlike the railroads, has passed through no receivership, floated no bond issues, paid no princely salaries. I could spit out the window and retire and my retirement pay for life as a major general would be only $2,250 a year less than I'm getting now. I'll stake my honor, reputation and life that the American people were never misled by any report I ever made...
Excessively tall, sardonic and adventurous is the King of Denmark's cousin, Prince Aage, socially famed for his discovery that "Paris nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty window pane." Last spring Aage, weary of Paris, was permitted by the French Government to re-enlist in their blood-&-sandy Foreign Legion, regaining his former rank of captain (TIME, June 27). Last week Danish newspapers excitedly printed a letter from the royal Legionnaire. For once in his life world-weary Aage was aroused, indignant...
Slumped in his Manhattan apartment one early morning last week Ivan Rhuele Gates said to his wife: "I think I'll jump out of the window." His wife ran to him, clutched his waist, pleaded with him to listen. Brawny Ivan Gates ignored her, walked to the window, climbed upon the sill and-nearly dragging his small wife with him-jumped. Thus, dismally, died "Van" Gates, 42, Ringling of the flying circus era. Frustrated by the boom of commercial aviation. Van Gates had lost his money, his health. Few weeks ago he was operating "museums" on Broadway...
...flat. "The melody," he relates, "did not slur up & down as when the wind whistles through a cranny, but changed by sharply defined steps from note to note. The melody included runs, slow trills, turns and grace notes and sounded so artificial that I felt bound to open the window and make sure that the tune was not being played by a human performer out of doors." When Mr. Barnes assured Sir Richard that there was no spoofing, the learned acoustician cocked his ears at all corners & crannies of the bathroom at Angmering-on-Sea. The overflow drain...