Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Browning, now a top man in Lieut. General Somervell's A.S.F. ; Raymond H. Fogler, now president of W. T. Grant Co.) By turns a kindly and domineering man, Sewell Avery once said: "If anybody ventures to differ with me, of course, I throw them out of the window...
...realistic detail in a stained glass English church window may stir up almost as brisk a blaze of controversy as the destroyer detail of the window recently ordered removed from the Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base (TIME, April 10). The new window will be unveiled this week in St. Andrew's Church, Cransley, Northamptonshire. A cigar may touch off the fireworks. The window shows the signing of the Atlantic Charter (1941). Below the guns of the battleship Prince of Wales sit President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, who is, as usual, smoking...
...uproar and a state investigation under way, Assistant Attorney General James W. Austin finally got a confession from four of Teacher Pauline Rebel's pupils. Their story: Teacher Rebel is nearsighted, even with her glasses. Her pupils stuck lighted matches in the bookcase and behind the window shades to simulate spontaneous combustion. They juggled the coal bucket with long pointers, threw lumps of coal around the room. Their sleight of hand was so skillful that it fooled not only the teacher but suggestible parents, one of whom swore that coals jumped out of his hand...
...fluttery little woman fond of long white gowns, Chaminade gave her recitals before banks of potted palms. She claimed that the soul of Beethoven once appeared outside her window in the form of a flame and burned briskly while she played the piano. In middle age she married a Marseilles music publisher named Carbonnel, who died five years later. A Philadelphia reviewer once mistakenly noted that she had never been married. "She is called Mme. Chaminade," he explained, "because she is wedded...
With the appearance of warm weather, the future "medicos" of Company A find their task (which we feel is the toughest to be found around Harvard) made more difficult. It is not unusual to catch a dreamy "G.L." staring out some lab window, at the lazy, sunlit street below. Spring is the season when sweet laughter is wafted up to McKinlock Hall from the grassy banks of the Charles by the evening breezes. Ignore it, soldier, there is a Zoology book for you to pound your brains upon...