Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Houses' homes will be, strictly speaking, made of steel. The frames will be of steel and so will the floors which will be of battle-deck construction. Insulation will make General Houses warm in winter, cool in summer. They will have flat, aluminum painted roofs, many windows. The exterior will be painted. By standardization of parts, numerous models and combinations of rooms can be offered. At present the company has approved various Fisher designs for five-room homes to cost around...
Unhappily for Paragon Slocum, he picked up a cigaret girl named Lulu Schaeffer one night and fell in love with her over the next morning's toast. He decided that under her comely exterior beat a heart of gold. He made her throw over her job, memorize Shakespeare, dress properly. He got her in the movies. She became "America's Joy Girl." the nation's current epitome of sweetness & light with a dash of innocent fun. Thereupon her creator fell on evil days. Miss Schaeffer spurned his attentions, betrayed him right & left, refused his belated offer...
...further expected that all the exterior scaffolding on the chapel will be removed before Commencement in June...
...When she has convinced all of her peers except two, Mrs. Crane arranges a trip to the scene of the crime which proves that she is right as well as rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime actress who, with the disappearance of exterior attractions, has had ample time to perfect her comedy technique. Among other members of the jury are Kitty Kelly, who uses the expression "Go milk a duck," and Ken Murray as a real estate salesman...
Willy-nilly every man, no matter how graceless his exterior, plays the polite host to bevies of little animals who pasture on his interior reaches. Unknowingly he takes most of them in with other foods. They, more knowing, accept no substitutes: while they have him they eat him, and him alone. Taken together, these constitute man's interior environment. But there are others who attack from the outside. Mosquitoes, crab-lice, bedbugs, fleas help to make life what it is. If hitherto you have found your acquaintances uninteresting, this entertaining account of their pests & parasites will help...