Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kings worth what they cost? Pastrycook Alfred Bell, 48, thinks so. Last week Alfred stood looking through the grubby show window of an empty little shop in the main road of Bedhampton, a Hampshire village. He smiled broadly as he pictured the cookies and cakes and pies he would bake to fill it. "It's all the King's doing," he cried. "God bless the King!" After the first World War, in which he served as an R.A.F. observer, Alfred had opened up his own pastry shop in London's Ealing. In World War II, Alfred joined...
Grandma's studio is her bedroom. It has a wood stove for winter weather. "I look out the window sometimes," she says, "to see the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene." She never paints from nature "because it's easier...
...also become consul general in New York City, a job second in importance only to that of ambassador. Jacob had certainly made good. In fact, there was no telling where he might have gone if Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, the schoolteacher, had not jumped out of the third-floor window of his consulate...
...minute later, at 4:19, Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina jumped out a window of the consulate (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the most sensational story of the week tumbled right into the lap of the press. The men went to work on it as swiftly as firemen sliding down a pole...
Georgia O'Keeffe spends half of each year in Manhattan and the other six months in New Mexico's canyon country -an equally steep and angular land. She has painted both homes with appropriate simplicity. Her Manhattan oils (many of them done from a window of the midtown Hotel Shelton) were pavement-hard and needle-sharp...