Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the Law. In Tulsa, a man who was bothered by drunks under his bedroom window got in touch with police, conscientiously inquired about his rights, won official support of his plan, thereupon took a bucket of water to the window and poured...
...high." He has a sensation of floating on air, or falling softly on waves. His ears ring sweetly, his head swims pleasantly, his limbs are langorously heavy, his hunger grows, especially for sweets. Curious things happen to his perceptions of space and time. Objects a mile outside the window may seem with in easy reach. A lazy minute may seem like an hour. Curiously, the power of mental concentration appears to increase rather than diminish. Some specialized workers find that marijuana stimulates their faculties...
Died. Clifford Whittingham Beers, 67, onetime maniac, founder and longtime secretary of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (1909-'38); of broncho-pneumonia following cerebral thrombosis; in Providence. Fearing a fancied approach of epilepsy, in 1900 he leaped out of a fourth floor window, lived to see the inside of both private and public insane asylums. Released in 1903, he later wrote A Mind That Found Itself. A best-selling personal history, it drew the nation's attention to the primitive brutality of its madhouses, led to reforms that helped many unbalanced minds...
When Louise looked out of her bedroom window, she could see the Adamses walking around their box-bordered garden next door. Early each morning Father Randall, with his brilliantined beard and his hearty manner, took Louise to the stables to feed sugar to the horses while they were being curried. He brought her boxes of Page & Shaw chocolates, got front seats for the Admiral Dewey Parade, took her to see Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle. He told her that all their magnificent house needed was a moat and a drawbridge, and he was going to put them...
...younger daughter, could not get out of bed. The doctor said first that it was just a swollen ankle, then, as her mother was relaxing in relief: "Suddenly a thought stabbed me. . . . There was no more laughing. Just low voices, talking, talking. . . . My husband stood looking out of the window. I felt queer. As if a burden had been lifted from me. . . . Dr. George Draper . . . said infantile paralysis was a strange disease. ... 'At present she has only the use of her left arm,' he said. 'Prognosis for life is fair...