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Word: windowful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney's Office"; how when the Preparedness Day bomb exploded he and his wife were elsewhere. Said he: "Tom Mooney and Fate were good friends that day. Mrs. Mooney and I were in her studio on the fifth floor of the Eilers Building. A large flag covered the window. We could not see the parade so we went up on the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Mooney Marathon | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Portland's Mayor Joseph K. Carson Jr. Last week, the indictment of eleven unionists in Portland brought the State total of those charged with "goonery" to more than 50. Most of those held are members of Dave Beck's Brotherhood of Teamsters. The charges range from window-breaking to arson and bombing. To date, 16 have pleaded guilty, seven have been sentenced. When Oregon's Martin announced last week that he would again seek the Democratic nomination for Governor, his chances of getting it had been greatly improved by the drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Seattle Revolt | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...arrived and I began to get a little worried and nervous, in fact I threw my new pocket watch out the window and put my cigarette stub in my vest. But one small glass of Scotch fixed that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...whole darn prom was here, elbow room and all, and I really looked pretty hot. Just then I got in a fight with some guys who I crash were thinking because they had stiff shirts on and they busted in three of my window panes. So I went down the towel shoot to avoid bumping into the crowds coming in the doors. But I bumped into some climb trying to rat up the shamn doot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...week while Schuschnigg was speaking in Vienna. Next day the locally popular Mayor claimed he had resigned before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds singing the Nazi Horst Wessel song. To cow Graz, Dr. Schuschnigg promptly sent 16 tanks, army troops, 20 army bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Civil War? | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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