Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is show-window Spain-sleek, animated, and very, very expensive...
...Barea's self-command, worn down by the daily bloody destruction of children and women in Madrid's streets, finally broke. A fistful of quivering brains, stuck to a plate-glass window after a shell burst (he was escorting the visiting Duchess of Atholl at the time), shocked and nauseated him. He could no longer deal coolly with the bureaucratic intrigues that entangled him. In early 1938, he got the Government's permission to leave Spain with his wife. They crossed the frontier from Barcelona to France, to live in poverty and write...
From his office window last week, Harry Zinder, chief of TIME-LIFE International's Cairo bureau, could see the flocks of turkeys, geese and fat-tailed sheep, the herds of goats and gamoose (water buffalo) moving through the cluttered streets to the holiday markets. Christmas was at hand, and Zinder, as usual, was finding it a time of rejoicing and confusion...
...engaged," said husband-seeking Joanne Seamens, Simmons '50, "the boy might take her window shopping in the jewelry-store district...
...Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz Schoenberner's Confessions of a European Intellectual, which touched more gaily than profoundly on the soul of European man; Tory Poet-Essayist Osbert SitwelPs The Scarlet Tree, which drew pay-dirt from the inexhaustible lode of English...