Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prefect Henry not only shoved and bluffed his way out of the crowd without giving up the Red flag which he had seized but also rescued the French tricolor. Abashed by his courage, the mob quieted, only to be aroused later by Reds who finally managed to start a window-smashing spree which left the narrow streets of Brest a seeming shambles...
...inner office, equipped with bath, Mr. Aken made the best of his isolation. Leaning out the window, he shouted down eleven floors to newshawks on the street: "I'm in the real office with all the records. I'm carrying on the job of County Superintendent. See, I'm working on my annual report...
...Chicago, police had 50 complaints against Carl ("Red") Burke who goes to strangers' funerals, sobs religiously, wanders into the bedroom, throws all valuables in sight out the window, wanders out the door, collects the valuables, goes away...
...quiet, secluded cell where he would not be able to get his hands on a bottle of whiskey. He found himself in a modern hospital resembling an expensive hotel, where he was compelled to meet and talk with other patients, and where he slept in "a wide-open show window, an illuminated dog kennel." The medical attention was so close that, as he objected profanely, "people come walking in and out and prodding me with sticks every minute of the day and night." Irritable, anxious to sleep, half stupefied with drink, he objected to being weighed and given a shower...
...collectors took notice last week when Dr. Charles Herbert La Wall, able dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, said that old-fashioned drugstores' shelf-ware, mortars & pestles, glass window globes filled with red-& blue-colored water, had been largely destroyed, predicted that they would be listed as "almost priceless collectors' items of the next century...