Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coasted to the curb. Here, thought Guide Hall as he ran forward, was a fat fee. Out of the car's window was stuck a woman's face, its wrinkles beaming delight, its bespectacled brown eyes fairly dancing. "How," she asked, "could you tell...
...term is relative. Moses Cohen, 29, was married in his apartment to Rachel Ventura, 22, "publicly" in the sense that their intention was known. They were married "privately" in the sense that Moses Cohen's apartment is above a restaurant and a modiste shop and all Moses Cohen's window curtains were tightly drawn "because of the heat." There being no rabbi in Spain, the service was performed by a Moroccan banker, Rabbi Menahan Corias...
...Kassel a policeman was killed and a 90-year-old shoemaker shot dead as he watched the riot from his window. In Hamburg five people were wounded. In Bremen rioters stoned policemen, belabored them with short lengths of drainpipe. In Mühlheim six Communists and a police captain were seriously injured. In Berlin order was preserved and bloodshed prevented only by heroic measures. Example: when 12,000 Communists mass met at the Sportspalast, perspiring policemen patted and searched every one of the 12,000 for arms. As Drs. Brüning and Curtius rode through Berlin on their re-turn Fascists...
Previously, high-minded, pure-hearted Feng & Yen have fought Chang. But last week they seemed to have something to discuss with the dastard, extorter. mass-murderer and Champion Bad Chinaman. Marshal Chang's behavior in Japan has been exemplary except for having shot, from the window of his hotel, the ex-Emperor of China's cousin, suspected of having fiddled about in the Marshal's harem...
...bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that he was found by his valet who entered the room to awaken him at 7 o'clock...