Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dressed like a like a Filene doll called Holly Dolly, only she was big and blonde and the dolls small and brunette. I asked Miss Holly who Santa Claus really was and she said that he was a student at BC. "We have a 325-pound Santa in the window who everybody thinks is padded, but he isn't. He's a retired psychology professor...
...halfway up the Widner steps before he heard the singing from Appleton, faint through window and curtain, dropping back to him from the library's front. He stood a moment, hearing the whole church catch up a hymn and call back to the choir. There was no money here, no colored lights, no tinsel; Vag had the Yard to himself for a time, alone with leafless trees and space and darkness...
...Asbury Park, N.J., a mechanical laughing Santa in the window of Steinbach's department store caught fire from a short circuit. While the smoke billowed through the window, his ghostly mechanical belly laugh could be heard ringing in the streets...
...touch me' when they should be saying 'Take me home.' " Stores should be painted up and lit up. A dingy little store, slipping into bankruptcy in a Chicago suburb, quadrupled its gross to $8,000 a week when it installed new lights and smart fixtures. Window displays should be cut down or eliminated; the windows should be clear so that the whole store is one big display case...
...Breaking Point. In Salem, Mass., Mrs. Lorraine Feys sued for divorce on grounds that her husband threw knives and a flatiron at her, pushed her down a stairway, struck her across the chest with an ironing board, tried to toss her out of a window. In Waukegan, Ill., Mrs. Forrest W. Sweitzer, charging desertion, finally filed a divorce suit against her husband, who disappeared, she said, in the fall...