Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy old State Department Building many a window stayed lighted all night long last week while clerks decoded a stream of cables that poured in from abroad. Across the street in the White House, foreign words and wars were the main concern also of the man who had set the State Department to working overtime. Having previously decided that he wanted an extra session of Congress and what he wanted it to do, Franklin Roosevelt's major job in Washington was to deal with the reverberations, political and international, that followed his announcement in Chicago of a new foreign...
...labor and liberal groups, Socialist Norman Thomas nevertheless set up a "Committee for the Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa." Eleven men, including the police chief, were indicted. Presently the desk sergeant on duty the night of the floggings fell, jumped or was pushed to his death from the window of a Tampa hospital. A onetime justice of the peace also at police headquarters that night died suddenly and mysteriously. A Tampa Ku Klux Klansman implicated in the case was declared a suicide, though his wife called it murder...
...signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came in. As Walsh moved to pull a cord which would, set a signal in the window, Dalhover realized that he had walked into a trap...
Japanese wounded, brought all the way home from China, were commencing to arrive in trainloads at Tokyo. Drawn window blinds concealed the most appalling cases, shattered men carried off as inert as logs wrapped in bandages. Other Japanese wounded, able to hobble about, returned home in white kimonos. All week in Tokyo wounded came in on one platform and fresh troops bound for China entrained on the next platform, entered it through a triumphal arch inscribed "CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SOLDIERS LEAVING FOR THE FRONT...
...husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung in the trailer window. His connection with Margit, until they make a deal, is limited to a friendship with her Bohemian sister Irene (Florence Rice) and the latter's gentlemanly fiance Waldo (John Beal...