Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock in the morning the prowler. Alfred T. Varney, was halfway through the window of a second story apartment when the occupant, a woman, saw him and started screaming. Stahley and a couple of companions heard him and stepped out to meet him. The thief came tearing down the fire escape and arrived on the ground just in time to run, with all his might, into a terrific punch from Stahley. He immediately fell to the ground and resigned himself to slumber...
...JUDAS WINDOW-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). The murder of an elderly gentleman, found stabbed with an arrow in an apparently sealed room, with Sir Henry Merrivale defending a suspect caught with the corpse and a good deal of bright dialogue compensating for weaknesses in the plot. Good...
...beef campaign was the stiffest crisis the stores had to meet. They did the job by placing advertisements in 8,000 newspapers in every State at a cost of $2,000,000. There were also 33,000,000 handbills, window displays, free recipes, radio programs, much oral promotion by salesmen. Cattlemen bore none of the expense and there was no price fixing...
...often pause for the solemn reflection that in 1889 and 1891 these were great architectural achievements-office buildings framed in structural steel. Louis Sullivan fathered the skyscraper. In 1899 in the Carson Pirie Scott Building he used the steel structure functionally, i. e., naturally, to provide horizontal bands of window space instead of unnecessary walls...
Died. Edward J. Cattell, Si, onetime novelist (The Mills of God, To the Healing of the Sea), latterly a portly, bewhiskered Philadelphia wit; in the Manufacturers and Bankers Club, in the Broad Street window of which he had become a permanent fixture, waving to all who passed. Short time before he had said: "When I see a pretty girl and don't look twice, it'll be time to call the Coroner...