Word: windows
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...scene. Across the road the iron sword of Siegfried. Nothung, no longer flaunts its misinterpretation of a Wagnerian passage, placed there in Wartime. Sword and inscription have been removed. At the Villa Wahnfried, the end of the reign of the inexorable Cosima is signalized by flowers on the window ledge, the removal of iron bars from the windows. A brood of ducks quacks unmusically in a new and ornate marble pond...
...Milwaukee, Howard Burnett. 23. in search of food at his boarding house found the kitchen door locked, went outside, attempted to climb through a window. The sash came down on his neck, strangled...
...American Institute of Architects, through the Library of Congress, sent out an appeal last week for amateur photographers' snapshots of examples of Early American architecture, to complete a record of American architecture already being assembled in the Congressional Library. Memorable houses, barns, fences, doorways, well heads, water spouts, window frames, corn cribs, water troughs, ice houses, smoke houses and the like are wanted, photographs of remnants of the architectural past not easily available in standard reference books. Promised Leicester B. Holland, chief of the Division of Fine Arts of the Library of Congress...
...concerts. She collects the drums, hats, dolls given away as favors in Paris restaurants and when motoring stops in obscure villages, puts the toys down in the road near a group of children, then drives off. Says she: "I get on a train. I look out of the window and if I see a little house going up, I bless it and the people who are building it. Maybe if I ever met them I'd want to kick them in the afterpiece...
...Cambridge, Mass, a crowd gathered to watch a man who, while washing windows on the ninth floor, was dancing a jig. Arrested for being a nuisance, the window washer, one James O'Reilly, asserted that he could also eat razor blades or glass, chewed and swallowed an electric light bulb to prove...