Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...steer among the day's warm welcomes was recorded. A New York Harvard man, sitting in his officer near Grand Central Station, heard a brass band blaring forth Harvard airs outside his window. He hurried down to the station to join in what he thought was a welcoming demonstration and found that the band was representing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Why they were playing Harvard songs was not revealed...
Inconspicuous then, Mr. Scalise became scarcely better-known when he rose to the presidency of A. F. of L.'s Building Service Employees' International Union (with a membership of some 70,000 charwomen, chambermaids, elevator operators, window washers), a $25,000-a-year salary, an unlimited expense account. A little-known figure he might have remained, had not crusty, crusading Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who last fortnight got William Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. studio labor in Hollywood, sent to jail in Illinois to serve out an 18-year-old sentence for pandering) grown curious about...
...weeks ago it became known that the one-year rule has been chucked out the window. Douglas' new bomber, Bell's cannon-carrying pursuit ship Airacobra, Curtiss' P-40D pursuit, the new two-engined Lockheed and Grumman pursuits were released for sale to the Allies. Along with them went the Army Air Corps' most prized engine design: the liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder Allison...
...apathetic stockholders' meeting queried Chairman Avery on differences of opinion. He said there were none, then smiled. "If anybody ventures to differ with me, of course, I throw them out of the window." To ex-Avery Men this remark did not seem funny. From trade talk and the facts available it appeared that the disagreements probably had two bases...
Chief among those whom I offended by describing their proficiency as merely "more than adequate" is John Cumming '41. Certain weakening elements in his large "Oil," such as, an enigmatic source of light despite the presence of a large window in the background, and a failure to give a proper feeling of weight to his seated figures, are reduced to insignificance in view of the comprehensive power of organization with which the entire canvas is handled. The painting is alive; the colors are healthy; and whatever distortion of perspective exists contributes to the vibrancy of the entire piece by supplementing...