Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had found to come rolling home late from. There used to be uncouth songs and shouts from them sometimes and I would wake up and mutter to myself. Now the only noise that bothers me is the sparrows under the caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible sun. It is usually more unpleasant than pleasant to wake up early and listen to them. I get to thinking I shouldn't have gone to bed so late--if I hadn't I could...
...yesterday a pair of the shortlegged, long-bodied specie of dogs was found about Winthrop House from which they were taken to Apted's office, where they spent the day reclining on his red plush window seat. They will be returned when the owners come for them, soon, Mr. Apted hopes...
When a conniving ward leader suggests that Cave abuse his official power, he tosses his visitor's hat out the window and his visitor out the door. Johnny's love life is complicated by the fact that his fiancee (Mae Clarke) is the loyal secretary to the town's worst scalawag (Henry Kolker...
...charge that he had been peeking in the window of a young woman recently was dropped when it was found that he had been in Flint, Michigan for the last two weeks...
This was clear enough to anyone who recalls what Japan has been putting over on China in recent years. In Shanghai the mere suspicion that a Chinese had thrown a pear core out the window of a restaurant at a Japanese sailor was taken by Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...