Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter, my roommates and myself would like to request, somewhat wist fully, that student officers with pretty wives would declare the sidewalk in front of Morris Hall out of bounds. It seems that many of these officers allow their women folk to wait for them in front of our window and it is rather disconcerting to serious minded students to see so many well turned ankles gambolling around in front of them. Pulling the shades doesn't work because Rusty Mueller simply can't stand to have the shades down when he knows women are out there. The only solution...
Last week another Army order marked war's turn: West Coast dimout regulations were relaxed. Window shades may stay up in most homes. Motorists may drive with full headlights in all but the areas facing the sea. Inland shopkeepers may light up signs and windows...
...Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie. > Ann Sheridan, as an experienced college girl, explaining in song, to a bevy of hastily dry-cleaned doves, "why every window has a window shade" and why "there's no partition in a davenport...
...Angeles, a café proprietor finally had his front window permanently lettered in gold leaf: "Monterey Café-Waitress Wanted...
...some with resignation, all quietly. The luckless bravery of the conquered is shown in the slow glance with which a miner glances behind him for pursuers at a secret meeting in the hills; powerless loathing is shown in the slow movement with which a housewife pulls down an open window and shuts out the sound-truck...