Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then went to his daughter Viola, who paid even less attention to it than he had. Recently, friends urged her to find out its worth. She took it to Revillon Fréres, smart Manhattan furriers, who this week began exhibiting the piece for Fifth Avenue window-gazers. Unofficial appraisal: intrinsic value-under $10; possible rarity value...
From the window of his office in the State Penitentiary at Columbia, S. C, Prison Guard Captain Olin Sanders last week shouted to Corporal Charles L. Christmus on duty in the yard below...
...Sanders in his office. Since Captain Sanders had given instructions to disregard any order he might give under such circumstances, Corporal Christmus called Prison Superintendent J. S. Wilson. Colonel Wilson called South Carolina's 41-year-old Governor Olin Dewitt Johnston, who hurried to the prison. Toward the window of Captain Sanders' office marched the Governor with his hands deep in his overcoat pockets...
Half-a-dozen gas grenades arched through the window. A moment later six licked convicts stumbled out, but Captain Sanders was not with them. Guardsmen found him on the floor of his office in a pool of blood, covered with fresh stab wounds. A few minutes later in the prison hospital. Captain Sanders died...
...Duke this week wrote an impassioned letter to the London Times, disclosing that two reporters had tried to climb into his house through a window to get a look at King Leopold, had sought to enter His Majesty's railway compartment, had rung up in "bad French" on the telephone. "To what depths," wrote the Duke of Portland, "have certain members of the press descended...