Word: window
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Mrs. Bridges fell out the window, my aunt was unaware of the identity of her neighbors, although their kitchen windows were but 4 or 5 ft. apart. The Bridges' daughter used to enjoy taking my aunt's dog, Difo, for walks, but my aunt didn't know the girl's last name. Once in her presence she raked that terrible Harry Bridges over the coals but the child did not even peep...
Well, it was just about dusk when Mrs. Bridges started to take in the wash. It was on one of those hellish, back-breaking pulley lines. She had removed the first clothespin, when she lost her balance and hurtled out the window. She fell two stories to the concrete below into a space about as big as a closet. She struck the drainpipe to my aunt's flat and this broke her fall...
Surprised, too, were the police. They assumed that he pushed his wife out the window. They questioned my aunt and tried to make her admit she had heard Bridges and his wife quarreling. They went upstairs into my aunt's kitchen and measured the distance between the windows of the two flats to ascertain if she could have heard any words, had there been...
...that instant there came the mounting whistling scream of a falling bomb and a blast of sound that smashed every window and almost every glass in the Cathay bar. Instantly another followed, landed full on the Palace hotel across the street. In the lobby of the Palace stood United Pressman John R. Morris. He wrote...
...witch hazel, face powder, lipstick, milk of magnesia, shaving cream, peroxide, cascara pills. Last week a consignment of 48 of ''Macy's Own" drugs and cosmetics, including those named, arrived not at Broadway & 34th Street but in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it soon filled a large window and several counters in the "Boston Store" of Fowler, Dick & Walker. Wilkes-Barre citizens, dripping from an all-day downpour, bought 15% of the shipment on the first day. For retailers in general this was interesting news. For manufacturers of "national brands'' it was the latest package...