Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan last week, Patrolman Joseph Gardner took into custody a modern exemplar of this excruciating old breed. Officer Gardner got his evidence by spending an evening with one eye glued to a crack in the window shade of Peter Gorgak's barbershop on Third Avenue. Through this peephole he could see in the barbershop mirror an incongruous sight: Mr. Gorgak sitting in his own barber chair having his teeth drilled and dentaled up by a stranger...
...Woman in the Window (International) is a psychological thriller that tops anything in its line since Hitchcock's Suspicion. As the second time at bat for the newly formed producing team, International Pictures (TIME, Sept. 18), it marks another clean hit by Producer-Author Nunnally Johnson...
...Americans had come back. Filipinos; ran excitedly through the shellfire laughing, crying, cheering to be inside the U.S. lines. When U.S. troops marched into the streets of Tacloban, women in bright dresses crowded every window and doorway ; old men sprang to exaggerated attention to salute every U.S. uniform; toddlers had somewhere learned to make the "V" sign with their fingers...
Twenty Cigars. "[Freud's] office consisted of a dark little anteroom and three chambers. . . . Each room had but one window opening onto a courtyard in the middle of which stood a tall and beautiful tree." The man who placed so much importance on erotic drives that he was widely regarded as monstrous was "der Papa" to six adoring children-"when one of the children had been absent for some time and was met by another, the first word from the newcomer was: 'Father now drinks his tea from the green cup instead of from the blue...
...doors. Doughgirls Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith and Jane Wyman and would-be Husbands John Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another bureaucrat (Charles Ruggles), who is too amorous to keep his mind on affairs of state, 4) a G-man, a porter, two chambermaids, five babies, a proudly beavered Orthodox priest...