Word: firetrap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homework. In Tyler, Tex., the National Board of Fire Underwriters finished a three-week inspection tour of the city, pointed out that the main fire station was a firetrap...
...Last week, the White House was closed to all sightseeing tours and big social events. Reason: repairs. The great marble staircase, supported by crumbling bricks, is unsafe. Officials say the third floor is a firetrap. Later, the Trumans probably will move across the street to Blair House while repairs are completed...
...Father O'Malley's (Crosby's) new parish, Ingrid Bergman is the nun in charge of 'St. Mary's Parochial School. Sister Bergman's school is a firetrap. Rich old Mr. Bogardus (Henry Travers) is putting up an office building next door and wants to have St. Mary's condemned so that he can use the property for a parking lot. But Sister Bergman and her nuns pray night & day that mean old Mr. Bogardus will see the light and give up his fine new chromium and steel office building to the school...
...early New Deal days Franklin Roosevelt cruised about on Vincent Aster's palatial Nourmahal. Then he acquired the Sequoia, switched to the Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...
...nine demurred in no uncertain terms. One WAAC's husband prepared a bill of particulars: The barracks were unsanitary, a firetrap had a latrine (made for men) with some fittings that did not belong in a WAAC establishment...