Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the doors were locked the SS men began to work with furious speed. First they nailed army blankets over every window. Then they hauled up huge cans of highly inflammable acetate. The 13 guards were all ready, armed with every weapon in their bursting arsenals. At a signal all sprang into action...
Rhythms for Hymns. Ruth St. Denis was a Belasco dancer in 1902 when she saw a figure of the Egyptian goddess Isis in a cigar-store window, and turned to oriental dancing. In 1914 she married Ted Shawn, a Methodist divinity student. They explored native American dancing, trained such successors as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
This being a dinner for "company," my friends went at it with relish, despite rattling dishes and window panes, constantly shivered by V-2 and buzz-bomb blasts all around. Their eagerness to share their little with me did more to create the lump in my throat than did the thought of their plight...
...Katz was giving a customer a shave when the radio stabbed out the news. Sam Katz walked over to the water cooler, took a long, slow drink, sat down and stared into space for nearly ten minutes. Finally he got up and painted a sign on his window: "Roosevelt Is Dead." Then he finished the shave. In an Omaha poolhall, men racked up their cues without finishing their games, walked out. In a Manhattan taxicab, a fare told the driver, who pulled over to the curb, sat with his head bowed, and after two minutes resumed his driving...
...sunshine boys were basking in the quadrangle, an announcement of the war's end brought momentary happiness until Puckett's microphone stuck its ugly head out the window. Climax of the unhappy incident was the appearance of a guillible Midshipman who had his bags packed (literally) ready to leave for home...