Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placidly putting the finishing touches on the revised Guffey Coal Bill. Passage within ten minutes seemed assured, and contented Senators' minds were beginning to turn to thoughts of cold drinks and warm supper. In their snug, thick-carpeted little chamber, the storm & strife of tear gas and window-smashings, of roaring, club-waving mass resistance to the Law, seemed pleasantly far away. Day before the Guffey bill windup, New York's New Dealing Robert F. Wagner had presented what was believed to be the Administration viewpoint when he rose in the Senate to blame the Sit-Down...
...contemplatively intoned their musical incantations." But most of Virginia Woolf's descriptions are pictures: "It was March and the wind was blowing. . . . With one blast it blew out color-even a Rembrandt in the National Gallery, even a solid ruby in a Bond Street window: one blast and they were gone ... it paled every window; drove old gentlemen further and further into the leather smelling recesses of clubs; and old ladies to sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms and kitchens. Triumphing in its wantonness it emptied the streets; swept flesh before...
Three shots shattered a window in the Winthrop House room of Thomas H. Bilodeau '37 Monday night, narrowly missing the Varsity baseball captain. Coming from the direction of Lowell House the sharpshooter peppered the side of the building before sending the bullets into the room...
After the first two shots Bilodeau went to the window to investigate and was showered with glass when the third projectile ploughed into the room. Steel-jacketed BB's which could seriously injure a person, were the bullets used...
...readers who remember such zip-past-the-window milestones as prize novels, it may seem only yesterday that Paul Morgan won a Harper $7,500 prize with his first published book. The Fault of Angels (TIME, Aug. 28, 1933), a lightly satirical story of the Rochester, N. Y. music colony. Actually Author Horgan has since then written three others. Last week his latest went zipping past the window. This time it was less like a milestone than a winged western sandwich with the lifegiving onion omitted...