Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarks for a scene in which he does an imitation of Will Rogers. (Four years ago when Comedian Stone was hurt in an airplane crash, Funnyman Rogers took his place in Three Cheers.) Except for that scene and his one good song ("There's a Bluebird in My Window and a Landlord at My Door") Fred Stone spends most of his time offstage...
...Pirnie, Simons store are tables stacked with crackers, condensed milk, razor blades, patent medicines, adding machines and other products of U. S. industry. But these articles are not the store's stock in trade. Aided by garish window displays (including large gilded dollars), the store's bright salesmen sell securities listed on the Stock Exchange. Though the store was organized by an old stock salesman, it is now in charge of a seasoned merchandiser who gave it what Pirnie, Simons calls "the Fifth Avenue touch...
...laughs merrily, waves, cries: "Au revoir, Marianne! Au revoir, mes enfants! An 'voir!" He swings the port to, is gone. . . . Within the aluminum globule Professor Piccard was almost grudging about the occasional attention he must give to his instruments. He wanted to be at one of the nine window ports, watching the earth drop away, watching the heavens em brace him. ... He found time to jot eloquent notes of what he saw. Excerpts:* "5:34 a. m. Brilliant daylight floods all about us. My young friend Cosyns begins his experiments in connection with the cosmic rays. What...
...four-hour paralysis of one-half of Mr. Hedley's subway system. Two thousand passengers were led choking and gasping from dark stalled trains below ground. Smoke and bursts of flame shot up through exits and ventilators. In the excitement several women fainted, many a car window was smashed by hysterical passengers who could not get out quickly enough. Fourteen were injured. Rarely does a railroad or transit president get caught in a wreck on his own line as Mr. Hedley did. Most famed case was that of Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Ry., who in 1906 was killed...
...place with a palatial manor house in which are five nurseries, the property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house is called "Mostly Hall" because it is that...