Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Glee Club ranged themselves in a semicircle on Boston's Jamaica Plain and began to serenade the ladies in the lighted window above. They warbled songs like Mother, I'm Slowly Dying and The Man in the Moon's Ball. Midway through, they were interrupted by a band of town boys who made rude noises on wind instruments, unhitched the Harvards' horses and sent them trudging on foot back to Cambridge. That was in Harvard's musical infancy. Last week the glee club assembled again (present membership: 135) to celebrate its centennial with...
Self-Service. In Preston, England, a thief smashed the window of Arthur Boyle's clothing store, took a size 42 raincoat, left all other merchandise untouched, disappeared long before police learned that a shopper had said he wanted a size 42 raincoat, and would the store please put it in the window so he could come by and look it over...
...lights-out-at-10:30 Elizabeth Arden camp: "Miss Separate Table, that was me. Everyone else was dieting. I was trying to put on some weight." Then with gusto Bea recalled: "One night some of us-and I won't say which-sneaked out the window, past the guards and rushed into Phoenix. There was a loud bar there and a very real cowboy. It was wonderful. He didn't know who I was. and all I know about him was that he was very big and kissed me good night. We got back to the ranch about...
...ignored repeated warnings and became a drunk. "When Streltsov was in the hospital," reported East Berlin's Junge Welt, "his mother brought him not fruit or books, but vodka. The doctors objected, naturally, but the mother advised her son to secrete the bottle by suspending it from the window by a string. Neither did she make do with one bottle. She brought two." Streltsov was finally picked up by the police. His comrades voted to drop him from the national team and petitioned the Union Committee to revoke his title of "Deserving Master." ¶Hungary's women...
Picket. In Ardmore, Okla., State Trooper Paul Clark was waved down by a man at the side of the road who got himself arrested when he stuck his head in the window, warned: "Hey, the highway cops are working a radar trap over the hill...