Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handyman. In Woodbury, N.J., the ad placed by a "young man, 36" in the Help Available column of the local newspaper offered to "do anything from breaking into Fort Knox to pushing your mother-in-law out the window...
...York Giants, Dan Gardella had never done anything to get himself into baseball's hall of fame (though he hit 18 home runs for the Giants in 1945). One of his chief distinctions was off-the-field acrobatics-he could crawl out a hotel window and dangle from the ledge by his fingertips. Three years ago, after a spring training row with the Giants, he stormed off to play, for more money, with the Mexican League (TIME, March 11, 1946) and was suspended from organized U.S. baseball for five years...
...Fighting O'Flynn (Fairbanks; Universal-International) allows Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to make good use of a reliable family formula: never enter a room through a door if you can vault through the window, never pick a fight with one man if you can take on a squad. In a cheerfully outrageous tale of a Napoleonic plot to invade Ireland, Fairbanks makes his entrance with tongue in cheek. In the end, he almost swallows it to keep from laughing at his own exaggerated heroics...
...says the count. "You must think, 'I, February 1949, am going in to dinner.' " Failure to "date" one's facts, often to the minute, leads to inaccuracy and even mental disorders. (Once a man who, as a child, had been dangled out of a window by an angry nurse came to Korzybski a nervous wreck. When the count convinced him that "20 years ago is not today," he was cured...
...Denver one day last week, a motorist pulled up to the curb in front of the Colorado State Bank. He rolled down his window, and began talking to what looked like a grey steel mailbox at the curb. It was no mailbox, but a "snorkel" (so called after the German submarine air intake) for curbstone banking...