Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small window decorations in New London proper and a bumper crop of balloon venders added something of the spectacular to the occasion but an all day drizzle today considerably dampened the spirits of the revelers...
...Quite There. In Springfield, Ohio, resourceful Contractor Julius N. Marcinko had trouble with a key that wouldn't fit, finally got in through the basement window and laid a tile floor in the kitchen of the wrong house. In Nashville, Tenn., a woman had a neat, small house constructed, then discovered that the lot she owned was down the street...
...Harwood, near Regent's Park, one of London's few refrigerators (about one British family in 35 owns one) chose this crucial moment to spring a leak. To save their Pekingese bitch, Anna, from asphyxiation, the Harwoods hung her out of the window in a string bag. Whether Anna survived the treatment without hysterics was not reported, but as the weekend approached with cooling thunderstorms, the ever-helpful Evening Standard had a final word of advice for other dog lovers. "Dog hysteria," pronounced the Standard, "has its root in digestive troubles, but dogs are more prone to attack...
...Jungfrau's peak gleamed in the distance; the River Aare rushed through Bern beneath the hotel window. The mild, wistful-eyed man who had tried to get along with everybody (including the Communists) had with him his timid little wife and his beautiful young daughter, Juliette. But Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge) was uneasy: he was not enjoying his Swiss vacation from his duties as Premier of Hungary...
...realistic portrait would show a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), ruddy, 200-lb. man of 66 who can still get into his World War I uniform. The haughty eyes, ice-water blue, would window an inordinately shy, insufferably proud, incredibly prejudiced mind, acutely aware of its heritage...