Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman wanted to be in on a bit of U.S. history-making-the birth of the new National Military Establishment. He had planned a full-dress White House show this week for the swearing in of Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal. Last week the plans went out the window on a sudden breeze...
...each (thus undercutting the market for some Americans who were getting 5 or 6 marks). They made the acquaintance of Germans who were delighted to sell them almost new 1946 and 1947 Chevrolets and Fords for 50,000 to 60,000 marks each. Sometimes the cars had a broken window or crossed ignition wires, which seemed to indicate that the owner had lost the key before selling...
Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of Radcliffe College, succeeded in establishing her respectability to the nervous satisfaction of a housebreaker last week whom she caught crawling out a window of her Brattle home. "I was just bringing a drunk pal home, don't want to wake the wife," he started to explain to the irate Miss Sherman...
Next day, when the press found time for a second look, reporters found the real Rube Marquard. He was far from the Bowery. He had a perfectly good job as a pari-mutuel ticket-seller at the $50 window at a New Jersey race track, and insisted indignantly that the $50 window was a post no drinking man could hold. He had spent the previous evening playing pinochle with his wife and the neighbors...
...School, Aztec-faced James M. Landis acquired a certain ponderosity of language. As director of the Office of Civilian Defense in 1942, Landis ordered federal buildings to obtain "obscuration . . . either by blackout construction or by termination of the illumination." President Roosevelt laughingly rewrote this as ". . . put something across the window ... or turn out the lights...