Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate, it seems, wanted to swim on Sunday. Scaling a rear wall, he squeezed through a narrow window, smiled triumphantly...
...Allentown, Pa., Erma Schank jumped out of a window, killed herself because she knew a man would call to ask her questions about something she had lied about 20 years...
...year ago a carpenter at work on the Pittsburgher Hotel, owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and his brother Richard Beatty Mellon, dropped a hammer. It fell through a large plate-glass window in the Frick Building next door. Flying glass cut a 23-inch gash, severed a vertebra, in the back of Mary Hahn, 23, cigar vendor. Last week, after the Mellon lawyers had admitted liability, an Allegheny county jury awarded Miss Hahn $102,427 in damages. The Mellons, through counsel, protested the verdict was excessive, appealed for a new trial...
...afternoon last week two well-known Yazooans stood talking near the corner of Jefferson and Main, in front of the flyspecked window of Nector's Restaurant, where the town's bachelors go to drink their breakfast Coca-Cola. One was Mayor John T. Stricklin, oldtime politician. The other was Dentist R. E. Hawkins whom white-thatched, bespectacled Frank R. Birdsall, member of the State tax commission, editor & publisher of three-times-a-week Sentinel had supported in February's mayoralty election. Dentist Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly...
Editor Silverman's own particular province is largely bounded by a window facing Manhattan's West 46th Street in which he sits on a dais-like structure. Across from him sits his son Sid to whom he gave half his paper last year. As much a part of him as Son Sid is Sime Silverman's Variety...