Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the amazing interior is a collection of museum pieces and antiques--the result of an unfortunate habit of 'Poon alumni of storing their attic overflows in the Sanctum. A fine suit of medieval Japanese armor stands at the south window of the Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England...
...disadvantages, the editors have come to feel a certain attachment to the depressing place. To this day each graduating 'Poon man takes a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful president, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
...Atlantic City's Ritz a beribboned young fighter pilot with the taut-strung face of his trade stood looking out of the window of his room. He wondered why a pilot with a combat career behind him and a restless uneasiness in his soul had been ordered to Atlantic City, of all places. He was not wounded. He was not consciously sick of anything but British flying weather...
...Russian nurses have to be able to turn their hand to almost anything. The commission saw some of them putting up a new hospital ward in their spare time. One nurse fitted a window frame while they watched...
...ignored the fickle crowd's catcalls you should also ignore its plaudits, and as a commander in Spain he had had to ignore its criticisms. Not many years later he was the most unpopular man in England. Once a huge mob stormed his mansion and smashed every window while the Duke sat inside beside the dead body of his wife. Once he made his way home from the Tower of London through howling crowds. He remained almost as expressionless through five miles of hostility as he had been through 60 miles of cheers. The difference was that he touched...