Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train bearing the Queen and Royal children from Madrid stopped at Hendaye, on the French border, where French officials were waiting to give the Queen the same official greeting she had always had on her innumerable trips over the same line. Queen Victoria Eugenie appeared briefly at a window and made an announcement which historians last week were already calling the Hendaye Statement...
...noon last Monday - Marathon Day - the crowds had begun to form along Boston's Exeter Street, to perch on window ledges. After lunch the windows filled up and eyes turned down the street to catch the first glimpse of what would presently appear - a runner, his face set, his eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson...
Thomas Eakins saw nothing strange in this; he himself often worked in his undershirt and a pair of overalls. (When the busy Chief Executive had to leave his office, Artist Eakins occupied himself with painting in a careful view of 19th Century Washington from the window.) Artist and President continued their- respective labors, and in due time the completed portrait was presented to the Union League Club...
...daughter. Quietly literate dialog by Booth Tarkington helps the effect, but it is always Arliss who gives the little picture distinction. He finds many things to do that make moments and the character come alive: mummery with the medicine, which he carefully measures out. and then throws through the window; his manner with his young partner (David Manners) whom he promotes as a suitor for his daughter by pretending, with his wife, to oppose him; little bits of business to express an old man's eccentric love of the spectacular. It is a picture unremarkable except that...
...modern poets only by the uniformly high plane of her language, the clarity of her line. Like most of her fellows she is lyrical (i. e. plaintive). In this book of 52 sonnets love is all her plaint. Most tell of love lost, losing, or going out by the window; a few are hortatory...