Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet-slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes on playing the banjo. Once my attention was taken from a patient by the sight of a whisky bottle swinging on a string outside my office window." They wanted a new building custom-tailored to their needs...
...Soft! What Truck ... In Madison, Wis., arrested for leaving the scene of an accident after his truck tore off a 3½-ton marquee and smashed an eight-foot window at the Cardinal Hotel, Henry D. Eskridge alibied: "Honest to gosh, I didn't know I hit anything...
...Radcliffe sophomore suffered the injuries in a fall from a third-story window at Greycroft House, early Friday morning...
...like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down "for the present" the Queen's prompt offer of an earldom - the customary reward for retiring Prime Ministers. *Last year Macmillan visited his mother's home town, peered through the window of the house where she had lived, gallantly tried eating fried chicken with his fingers, and at the invitation of the pastor read the lesson in the Methodist Church where his mother had worshiped (he himself is Church of England...
...Game Preserve. In Cleveland, cops surprised 40 men playing cards in an 8-by-10 ft. room, bagged two packs of cards and the 17 gamblers who couldn't squeeze past the door or dive through the window, later released their catch on insufficient evidence after they examined the cards, discovered they were printed in Spanish, decided it would be impossible to explain the game to the judge...