Word: windowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number of times. Projecting from the third story is an old Philadelphia "busybody," an arrangement of mirrors so she can see who is at the door without opening the window. Nothing in the old house has been changed since her mother died. In the front room there is an urn containing palm leaves from the funeral. In one corner is a large portrait of her mother surrounded by holly wreaths. Before it is a bowl of fresh flowers. She listens...
...were spending the weekend, was shattered last week as the castle was "bombed" in a mock air-raid. No airplanes flecked the sky and the Royal Family strolled about the grounds as the "bombs" went off around them. The "bombs": nothing more than mighty firecrackers. The only damage: a window in the Royal Mews which fell clattering to the ground as a "bomb" went off too close. Windsor volunteers, organized in decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this was part of a test cf the air-raid preparations for the castle, recently...
...says: "Peter is only doing what the great St. Peter called for - working for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein justice dwelleth." Patron of the Catholic Worker is St. Joseph, the working-class husband of Christ's Mother. A statue of him stands in the window of the Catholic Worker headquarters on Manhattan's dirty lower east side. Miss Day, Mr. Maurin and a dozen others live in this "House of Hospitality," along with some 40 indigent "guests." Every morning they feed coffee, rye bread and apple butter to 1,000 men who begin lining...
...citizen in Vienna's Doebling section took a pot shot from his window at Storm Troopers, missed, killed himself. In a downtown café, a Jewish diner rose, sneered "Heil Hitler!" stabbed his table companions with a butcher knife, then slashed his own throat...
Said one Stoughtonite, cramming for his History exam on his window seat as the fourth contingent stopped to stare, "They might at least offer us some peanuts...