Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout. In cases where the left half of the window is made partially dim, the right half must be wholly blacked-out during an alert, unless the whole window is entirely blacked-put before and after the alert when the half-dimming...
...York was more aristocratic, less intellectual. But the little city (pop. 60,000 in 1800) of yellow brick buildings and whitewashed brick houses at the tip of Manhattan Island was already friendly to painters and actors. Washington Irving, aged 17 in 1800, used to climb out the bedroom window of his home on William Street, after family prayers at night, to sneak to the theater...
...Harlem, Mrs. A. D. Babb had two signs in her window: 1) Midwife; 2) Petite Hand Work...
...through the German occupation the U.S. Embassy in Paris was a symbol of hope to Frenchmen. The graceful, cream-tinted building off the Place de la Concorde shone brighter every day. Its gardens behind the high iron railings were always carefully manicured. Every window was clean and glistening. Inside, every inkwell was full, every desk tidy, no pastepot gooey...
...This World. In McCook, Neb., Pfc. Ernest Olivier spun in a jitterbugging step, reached for his jiving partner's hand, plunged out the second-story window of the dance hall...