Word: windows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bandits never saw who fired at them. At the open window of his office, above the bank, wearing his white coat, stood Dentist Frank L. Hardy with a smoking rifle in his hands. He likes to hunt deer, had scored five hits out of six shots...
...ubiquitous habit of the American people to leave mementos of themselves and their thoughts on landmarks, window pancs, railings of scenic spots, college desks, and sacred sites. It is the simple man's cry for immortality with the immortal...
...doing right by our boys to let them go on losing like this? Shouldn't something be done about it?" And then the man behind the Herald Tribune says, "Do you suppose they're getting a really sound grounding in fundamentals?" After this the third one over in the window rouses himself violently from his lethargy by drawing on his almost dead cigar and states, "It's not so much the fundamentals, but the don't seem to be getting the plays." No direct word of rebuke, of course but the idea gets around...
...Dictator's motorcade consists always of three cars, generally enclosed 12-cylinder Hispano-Suizas. These cost in France, where they are made, as high as 250,000 francs ($7,700) for each chassis alone, rank among Europe's fastest cars. In Stalin's case, the tonneau windows of the three Hispanos are fitted on each side with blue glass, concealing the occupants and making it a guess in which car is the Dictator. There is no rear window and the construction suggests that a shot fired after one of these cars would simply bounce...
Last week U. S. booksellers might well have lined their window-displays with a border of shamrocks. Novelist-of-the-week was Liam O'Flaherty (see col. 3); and for the first time since the U. S. publication of Ulysses (1934), famed James Joyce had brought out a book...