Word: firetrap
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...live up to the valuation of $50,000,000 arbitrators set on it 34 years ago. In it stand the new $165,000 Bowie High School and a new U. S. Customs House, but more prominently a red-light district, a small stockyard and any number of ratty firetrap tenements. To Deputy Pérez' oratory, the reaction of city-proud El Pasoans was: "Wish to hell they would give it to Mexico...
...conferees went off to Manila with their boss's judgment (coinciding with their own): if Japan takes the present war as an occasion to move in on French and British interests, the U. S. must do everything short of war to resist. If you live in a firetrap, Nelson Johnson might say, and the apartment of the two people across the hall catches fire, you don't go on reading that romantic novel; you get busy. Occidentals want to go on hearing the sweet music of trade in the orient. For the time being, Nelson Trusler Johnson must...
Pretty Mary Rogers (Sylvia Sidney) lives in a firetrap. When a fire breaks out, her small brother falls off a ladder, a bystander (Leif Erikson) takes both to the hospital. He turns out to be the owner of the tenement. Convinced that he has been remiss, he decides to pull down all his old tenements, put up better ones. Legal, social and domestic difficulties impede him. But when the tenement where Mary Rogers lives flares up again, he finally goes to work...
...dynamic personnel manager of Marseille's largest and showiest dry goods store, Les Nouvelles Galeries, bearded M. Frichet recently succeeded in persuading the owners to protect the lives of clerks and customers in their gaudy firetrap by ordering a modern sprinkler system. The gossiping Marseille plumbers and their helpers were maddeningly slow; but by last week they had put in all the pipes and sprinkler heads, promised by this week to get the system connected to the water mains...
Last year interest centered particularly in Harvard Hall around the menace from fire and the daily delay in getting out after classes due to congestion in the narrow staircase. Student feeling, as voiced in CRIMSON editorials, learned from Cambridge City Hall that though the building might possibly be a firetrap, ample windows presented safety avenues for an emergency...