Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Real Life. In Lynn, Mass., a classic movie gag failed when Patrolman Edward Ray, peering into a store, caught the window dummy blinking...
Hope & Humor. German soldiers stormed that impudent Belgians asked them: "Have you packed your bags yet?" A Danish bookseller put two huge portraits of Hitler and Mussolini in his window. Between them, he placed a copy of Les Misérables...
Last week cheers in the streets got the best of Mr. Dunbar's curiosity. Although he had not before shown his face at a window lest he be recognized, he took a peek, saw British tanks rolling down the street. He buttoned on his clerical collar, stepped out into the open for the first time in five months, added his cheers to the others...
...When William Beaumont made his famed observations on gastric juice through the window in Alexis St. Martin's stomach, he was a U.S. Army surgeon...
Once in a while there is a deft Saroyan touch which leaves you with that mellow, warm feeling inside. Such is the case when young Ulysses, frightened to terror by a figure in a store window, suddenly realizes the meaning of the word "afraid," and his face lights up in wonder with the new-gained knowledge, as the tears vanish. But when Brown, Estabrook, and Saroyan use their same technique on the philosophies of death and immortality, the effect is not the same. Saroyan's message, as simple as the child Ulysses, can't be spread on with a thick...