Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. While he was working in a draughtsman's office, he did his first work in stained glass when he designed a set of 36 medallions in glass for Teacher's College of Columbia University. Soon after he was allowed to submit a design for the 13-foot rose window in the Sacred Heart Dominican Church in Jersey City, N. J., and won the competition. At the age of 19 he was associated with Cram and Ferguson and in their employ executed almost all the windows in the chapel at Mercersburg School. A whole set of windows for a church...
...film, there is an exquisite prologue; and to sketch this prologue is to sum up the spirit that runs through "Zwei Herzen." It is a summer's day in Vienna, and the year is 1830. In Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are opened wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window, and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellowed keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing...
...blow to the jaw silenced bleeding Sir Richard as he was about to address his assailants. He listened quietly while they demanded an increase in Newfoundland's dole, "or we'll pick you up, Sir Richard, and throw you out of that third-story window! And we want more food for the needy...
...gale, ballooning crazily and quite out of control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank the ripcord which would open a 25-ft. gash in the top of the helium cell, dropping the blimp instantly. Mechanic Blair leaned from a gondola window, put his weight on the cord, fell out to his death. The Columbia collapsed in a tangle of metal and fabric. From the wreck was dragged Pilot Dixon, unhurt...