Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. churchgoer was shocked last week by a stained glass window. The window, intended for the Roman Catholic Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base, had been designed by Wilbur Herbert Burnham, a famed designer of church windows. But this one was different. It showed the Virgin Mary surrounded by tanks, antiaircraft guns, planes, blimps. Instead of the Infant Jesus, the Virgin was holding a destroyer-escort vessel...
Last night at about 8:15 o'clock a chemical gas bomb, hurled through an open window, caused a choking cloud of smoke to infiltrate throughout the CRIMSON building, interrupting the work on this issue of the paper as it was going to press...
Arthur Hopkins, typesetter for the SERVICE NEWS, noticing someone moving outside a window of the press room, went upstairs to notify the editors. On returning, he and the editors found the press room clogged with a grayish-white smoke. The bomb was found, and with difficulty removed from the building by Dana Fernald, Editor. The Cambridge Fire Department finally extinguished the bomb in a barrel of water...
Fading Light. The 75-year-old regent for a nonexistent king, the admiral of a nonexistent fleet, stood with his host at the outsize picture window, looking down toward Salzburg and the Ostmark, once called Austria. It was in the Austro-Hungarian Navy before World War I that horse-loving Horthy got his admiral's stripes. It was from the hands of this onetime fellow subject of Kaiser Franz Josef that Horthy got the territorial plums which had made World War II so far so profitable. As he listened now to the Führer's rasping voice...
Could Be. In London, Stanley Gals worthy, twice before convicted of peeping, was found unconscious beside an over turned stool under a bedroom window. He spent three days in a hospital, then e plained to a police magistrate: "I never took my nerve medicine that day. I must have got excited...