Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero of the most gigantic U. S. betting stories is the late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
...offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol a pretty girl making wheat-cakes in the window...
Somewhere south of Brockton, however, he suddenly began to feel communicative. Turning slightly from the window, he bespoke the elderly portly man beside...
Died. Mrs. Florence Pitman Temple, 40, wife of Radio Engineer John Temple, wife from 1916 to 1929 and mother of the two sons of President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; by falling or jumping from an 11th story hotel window; in Manhattan...
...were bruises, on his arms, scars. His version: "Max Eastman didn't do that to me. I got so mad . . . that I wound up by throwing the book in his face. I didn't really sock him. If I had I might have knocked him through the window and out into Fifth Avenue. That would have been fine, wouldn't it? I just held him off. I didn't want to hurt...