Word: firetrap
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Somewhat bemused by all this, the 17 U.N. representatives accepted their flowers and settled down in Vientiane's decrepit Settha Palace Hotel and the firetrap Somboun Hotel, emptied for the occasion of its usual tenants-dancing girls and prostitutes. By general admission, the task before the fact-finders was roughly like trying to plow...
...Rebel Without a Cause). But Backus ("always too early or too late'') began his movie career at the start of Hollywood's slump. He often suspects that papa was right. Once that businesslike gentleman from Cleveland sniffed scornfully around the movie lots, pronounced one studio a "firetrap" and another "land poor." Soon afterwards, the first studio had a fire and the other has since taken to drilling for oil to boost the bankroll...
Twenty-two years later Dorothy Day's books were still as simple, but the bill was not getting paid. She was unable to pay for modernizing her House of Hospitality, a haven and a source of food to the derelicts of Manhattan's Bowery but a firetrap to Manhattan's Fire Department. Even more pressing was a $250 fine imposed by the City of New York for her failure to comply with the fire regulations...
Anglican Auden's $250 became the start of a fund to remove the House of Hospitality from the city's firetrap list. The total was expanded to $950 at week's end by a rash of contributions from newspaper readers. That still left some $27,000 needed to pay for the job, but Dorothy Day was unperturbed. "We'll just go ahead with an architect and pray," she said...
Governor Craig and Drs. Morgan and Groesbeck went through Indiana's mental hospitals like ferrets through a rabbit warren. At Indianapolis' Central State Hospital, an ancient, overcrowded firetrap within sight of the Statehouse, they found the men's infirmary as bad as any storied bedlam. The 55 patients were nearly all incontinent, and spent day and night lying naked on their beds in their own excrement. "Meals" consisted of cold slop, eaten with a spoon. None ever left the "infirmary" except to go to the morgue...