Word: window
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upstairs and downstairs and into the First Lady's chamber went two workmen last week, lugging shiny green holly wreaths, one for each window of the White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President...
...Dallas' quiet Monte Vista Street. As she undressed in the bathroom, she heard a sudden thud, a crash of glass, from the front bedroom where she slept. It sounded like a floor lamp falling over. Mary Jo ran in, saw a suitcase on the floor, under a broken window. Something was dreadfully wrong. She ran to the rear bedroom to wake her brother. Just as he stepped out of bed, the whole house came apart in a blasting crash. Mary Jo and Mrs. Miller were only slightly bruised; Brother J. H. was hit on the head by a falling...
...fire department arrived on the scene almost immediately, and did yeoman service amid the lusty cheers of a large crowd. Mattresses, lamps, books, clothing, and badly-charred chairs were thrown out of the window. A number of bystanders narrowly escaped serious injuries from the debris which poured out of the burning suite...
...Martin Block decided that there must be better rackets than tearing off Mr. Young's calendar. He found he had a purling, pitchman-style voice that made people buy things. He bought an old Buick, installed a phonograph, a microphone and loudspeaker, parked it under the windows of a chocolate yeast company's directors' meeting, let go with The Stars and Stripes Forever and a blaring, vitaminy commercial. At the music, directorial paunches creased over the window sills. At the commercial, three directors rushed downstairs, hired Martin and his noisemaker at $450 a week to plug chocolate...
...promises everybody a quart of caviar," translated a listener at a window to the crowd outside. "Caviar!" they cried. "We want caviar...