Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swiftly, so unobtrusively was Mr. Smith disposed of that Edward of Wales, who was looking out the other window of his limousine, showed no sign of noticing what had happened...
...looked out of a window of the La Paz club I saw fleeing men and women picked off by rifle fire. ... A friend who had called on me ... tried to leave for his own hotel on Thursday, but every time his head appeared in the doorway police fired. . . . Victims were dragged back out of sight...
...agent he is once ordered by his temperamental employer, a woman, to give a tea for the press. With misgivings he obeys. After the tea is over, this is what he sees : ''A beautiful Chinese urn had been smashed. A chair had been hurled through a studio window. Someone had danced on the polished floor with hobnails. There were nine burns from abandoned cigarets in the expensive rug. A drink had been spilled in the grand piano. Someone had left a lighted cigar on a mahogany side table. An entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly poured...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...
...unpleasant incident near the General Assembly's end was when Rev. Warren Elsing, 45, of Exeter, Calif., jumped out of a hotel window in a nervous paroxysm...