Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rented Atlanta hall Columbian Burke wildly harangued his audience of riffraff. Suddenly there was a crash of glass; a cloud of tear gas sent the listeners coughing and choking toward the exit. His lean face bright with sweat, Burke leaned through the broken window and shook his fist. He bawled: "Come back here, you Jew. We'll get you yet." To emergency police he shouted accusingly: "Some Communist...
Nazis forbade Polish music, so Wasowski played clandestinely in basements for handfuls of Poles who risked their lives to hear Chopin's familiar polonaises and nocturnes. Says Wasowski: "I think it was then I found Chopin's soul." Once at Warsaw he watched from his window a mass execution of 23 Poles. "I saw them placed against walls-eyes bound. They calmly sang the Polish national hymn. Madness seized me. I rushed to the rickety piano which was placed in the back room, and I accompanied them. I suppose they can't have heard me, because...
...inevitable Quenset Huts several blocks from the center of the University. How rough this life is or isn't varies undoubtedly with the individuals concerned, but a definite ray of light was east by a New Yorker correspondent recently, who on passing a Quenset Huf and "glaneing through a window, saw a maid in apron and lace-cap briskly shaking up cockfails...
...swivel-hipped his way between the two people sleeping on the study floor, straight-armed the book-case, and let the window shades up with a bang. "This is it," he said. One of the figures on the floor rolled over, mumbled something that Vag could have sworn sounded like Barzilauskus, and opened one eye. Waving at him gaily, Vag slammed the window shut, cutting off the stream of cold morning air, raising a minute cloud of coal dust, and waking the other figure in the process. The Vagabond bounded into the bathroom, applied shaving cream, and, with worn razor...
...Portland, Maine, police finally restored to his family a wandering little window-shopper who had somehow lost his bearings: nine-year-old Robert E. Peary III, exploratory grandson of the late Arctic explorer...