Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ration Point. In Chicago, William H. Jones looked out his window, saw his dog frozen on point, followed directions, found a hole in the ground, dug up a pound of butter...
Cursing. "I hope you fall out of the window, you blankety-blank stinky old bitch." This bad wish was expressed by a three-year-old in the wartime nursery school set up by Connecticut's St. Joseph College, in downtown Hartford. The vexed urchin's pretty teacher was not at all shocked: but being a nursery-school teacher, she carefully wrote down every word. In the newly streamlined November Progressive Education, she suggests how to handle such tough-talking cherubs...
...daughter Nancy, and his friend, the Marquis de Visdelou-Guimbeau, whose coat of arms is three wolves with their tongues hanging out. Then he dove into his car, told the driver to race for home. There Grisou, the Maltese "alibi" cat, stood on his hind legs at the window, making strong noises in his throat...
...slogan "Vandalism Is Treason." One Philadelphia theater was harassed by a gang of small fry "led by a six-year-old boy who crawled under seats, opened purses in the dark, and pocketed the contents." Police got their child when the six-year-old appeared at the ticket window with a $5 bill and two little girls, aged...
Overall monthly totals may conceal grave lags in the kind of bombers and fighters the armed forces need most. For window-dressing purposes, any month's total could easily be pushed to 10,000 by concentrating on trainer planes. But the October figures were solid, according to WPB production experts...