Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door" were slapped under front page headlines three columns wide. Despatches datelined Tokyo, Nanking, Shanghai and Mukden were boiled down to second-page squibs. Even the Papal daily edited by a Papal count wisecracked: "The United States, a nonLeague member, refuses to enter the door. Why not try the window...
...dialog to provide Frances Williams, Oscar Shaw, Jack Sheehan and Cecil Lean with an adequate background for their monkey business. Love in a Greenwich Village flat becomes love in a penthouse, with the Empire State Building (minus the new red light) instead of the moon looking benevolently through the window. Mild satire on the writing business becomes broad burlesque of the giant "Proxy" cinemansion. A minor character in the original play becomes Frances Williams and runs away with the show. She cuts up with Jack Sheehan, does an imitation of Hope Williams (no relation or friend of Frances) and sings...
...Howard Courant, was given a golden jubilee party by Kansas editors. Inspirer of the celebration was Editor Fred Flory of the Howard Citizen. The Courant is the Citizen's rival, but they share one office. For mutual economy Editor Flory prints the Courant on the Citizen press. One window of the office bears the Citizen's name, the other the Courant...
...Jersey City Salvation Army Home John J. Daggett walked in his sleep, walked through a second story window, fell to the ground, awoke. He walked upstairs, reported the accident, lit a cigaret. An ambulance surgeon saw smoke escaping from John Daggett's neck, found his windpipe had been nearly severed. Said Smoker Daggett: "Now that you mention it, I noticed I wasn't getting much out of this cigaret...
...President noticed from his office window some workmen unearthing fragments of China from a tunnel being dug for the heating system, and upon investigation found them to be part of the blue Staffordshire china, decorated with engravings of Harvard buildings, used in the College dining hall about a century...