Word: windowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the belligerents squared off, theories went out the window. The big point raised by the proponents of industrial unionism was that if the A. F. of L. did not get in and organize the automobile workers at once, company and Communist unions would. Same thing applied to the cement and aluminum industries...
...until next day did Munich learn that Bishop Meisser had been deposed by force. That night crowds streamed to the Bishop's palace and broke through the gates. "Heil Meisser! Heil Meisser!" they roared. After an interval the Bishop appeared at an upper window. He had scarcely opened his mouth to speak before someone seized him by the coattails and yanked him back out of sight. A few minutes later his wife appeared in his place...
From the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian high above the harbor floated a great black banner and other streamers of crepe hung from nearly every window in the town when the Dubrovnik came in with its sad freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...
...pleasant little comedy with incidental music. It supplies no opportunity to evaluate Warner Brothers' claims since it makes no demands upon her talents beyond: 1) impersonating a rich girl who finds wealth such an obstacle to a full life that she makes friends with a window-cleaner and rents a furnished apartment in which to entertain him and his friends; 2) listening to Dick Powell sing. She meets these demands effectively. The impression she gives audiences is that of Janet Gaynor with a brain. A shade more memorable than either the Hutchinson performance...
...show Gloria how to make a cocktail and tried to force the child to drink orange juice although all liquids are forbidden by the doctor. . . . Gloria came to me and stated that she felt so unhappy at Mrs. Vanderbilt's that she would rather jump out of the window than stay there...