Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extreme Cruelty. In Lawrence, Mass., Mrs. Jeanie R. Gordon sued for divorce, said that her husband threw her parrot out the window when the bird snitched on him for coming home late. In Portland, Me., Raymond Bracey, seeking a divorce, complained that his wife not only served him pea soup for breakfast and dinner but put pea-soup sandwiches in his lunch...
Another coincidence was spotted by a number of you in the November 3 issue. An advertisement on page 101 showed a parsimonious individual tucking a penny away in his vault while, behind his back, a hand reaching through the window grabbed a stack of banknotes from a table. "While you're busy saving pennies you're losing dollars," read the ad. On page 14 the Miscellany department carried the following item: "In Detroit, Theater Cashier Doris Trask dropped a penny, stooped to pick it up, straightened to discover that somebody had reached in her cage, snatched...
...Judges in Israel. He was convinced that education's primary task was the making of a Christian gentleman, not the development of an intellectual. Arnold did his part: searing sermons in chapel about evil and temptation, a terrible eye fixed on the "Close" (school grounds) beneath his window. Arnold's Rugby was the Rugby of "fagging" and Tom Brown's School Days...
...thought as he marked up his calender. He circled two dates and ran an exclamation point down through his last exam. Looked at one reading list, but don't even remember where I put it. Vag pecked underneath his blotter and back of the beer cans on the window still. Have to go farther back than that, Vag mused, and started looking through his desk. Going to be one of those long nights again. Reading lists for Reading Period, went the phrase, but it still, wasn't too late if he hurried. He looked again and found them tucked inside...
...group from below the Mason-Dixon Line hung a Confederate flag from the A-42 window of Louis B. Du Pree '50, who hails from Greenville, North Carolina. According to Du Pree, the flag was almost unnoticed, for it is similar to the Deacon's House emblem...