Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was, as usual, plenty of drinking, but very little disorder. Hotels as a precaution stripped their lobbies of furniture and planked over their skylights. Boston's Mayor Curley was disturbed at 3 a. m. by two intoxicated legionaries who kept putting their heads out of the window on the floor below and shouting: "We want Bonus!" Finally he doused them with a pitcher of ice water and the remark: "There's a bonus for you." Special agents sent from Washington raided five headquarters in two days, seized a good supply of liquor. Members of the gist Division, incensed, wired...
...bitter against meddling women and tender toward badgered men. Good shots: the kaleidoscope of Glenwood Park after Mrs. Curry's suicide, showing each household finishing a statement begun by the last; Grandpop Strawn letting chickens into the garden; Mrs. Curry's slightly crossed eyes peering out the window for her husband...
...last week Mayor Langum quietly made his way to the pumphouse, unlocked the door. His flashlight glittered on a pair of scissors. The Mayor snipped. Next day St. Charles's garter snake was fed milk in a corner of the pumphouse, later exhibited in a jar in the window of a butcher shop. On the jar was a sign: O LORD. PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP MY NOSE OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS...
...Milwaukee Ignatz Rewolinski, 250-Ib. policeman, was pushed through a window of a county food station, slightly cut, when a noonday breadline began to riot. Arrests...
...California, whence he went to the South Sea Islands, Australia, London. At 28 he showed his stories to British War Correspondent Archibald Forbes who called them "the finest collection of titles" he had ever seen. Having burnt them all, he noticed a woodsman's outfit in a shop window, returned to the Canadian wilderness, went back to England to write wilderness stories (Pierre and His People). His novels of the French regime in the New World were as widely read as Rudyard Kipling's imperialistic reportings. He married Manhattan Heiress Amy Van Tine in 1895, was knighted...