Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acacia-shaded street beneath my window in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits echoes the cymbal-clashing and drumbeats of a parade of Chinese dancers noisily celebrating the i yoth birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. In the hotel lobby a Chinese bride & groom have just posed for wedding pictures in the Chinese fashion: five austere black-gowned male relatives held the center of the portrait; the pretty bride in her white gown and the groom in his new black suit and wing collar were in the background...
Landmark. As Oxnard grew (1945 pop.: 18,979), Lucy's lone bawdyhouse expanded into a half-block of frame buildings, each well furnished, neatly painted and with window boxes full of geraniums. In Ventura County she became as well known as Oxnard's huge American Crystal Sugar Co. refinery. Lucy was the more spectacular sight. She wore bright, low-cut silk dresses from which her slatlike collarbones protruded, and she affected picture hats and high-heeled shoes. Her wigs were her pride -she had a long, black, wavy one, a short, straight, bobbed one, and for special occasions...
From Kalgan last week, the New York Herald Tribune's able, evenminded Correspondent A. T. Steele reported: "This city . . . has become a show window for the policies and methods of the Chinese Communists. . . . The attitude of the people here is one of curiosity mixed with apprehension. The poor are attracted by glittering promises of economic and political reform, and the middle classes and the well to do are worried...
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida escaped a shot of lead as he dined in Rome. A bullet fired in an unexplained shooting, described simply as having "nothing to do with Pepper's presence," zinged through a window and lodged in the woodwork...
...Touquet and skinned a notorious character named Amletto Battisti of 5,000,000 francs at Nice. One morning, strolling down the Esplanade at Cannes on the arm of a gallant London department store tycoon, she spotted a 52-carat, $250,000 diamond ring in a jeweler's window and wheedled him into buying it on the spot. All this & more she eventually spent or hocked...