Word: flatirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subarctic winter nights had begun to close in. So had the political night. In Helsinki, an assassin fired five bullets at close range into the back of a Russian naval officer's head. The assassin escaped. Near Helsinki's airport a Finn, armed with a flatiron, attacked a Russian soldier. The Finn was arrested. At the same airport, a few days later, were found the murdered bodies of two Red Army officers. The shattered country was heaving and grinding like an ice floe...
...Washington, D.C. the Thrift Shop, run by six charity organizations, is besieged by people who want old typewriters, sewing machines, refrigerators and clocks. Government workers, patent attorneys, and Blue Bookers comb through the shop's stock, hoping to strike gold (an electric fan or a flatiron...
...gave it another sardonic tag, "The Widow-Maker." Student pilots started out joking about it. ended up by scaring themselves. Training-field crashes added to the legend of the ship's habits: she needed "all of Texas" for the takeoff; she came in to land like a cold flatiron ; she stalled like a Model-T Ford running on kerosene. All that and much more...
Life in Mount Allegro was warm, noisy and often violent and profane. Uncle Nino in a fit of temporary madness tried to kill his brother with a flatiron. Children at too early an age learned the meaning and implications of epithets like strafalaria (genteel translation: loose woman). And often, at night, the sky hung like a smoldering sulphurous ceiling above the optical factory that squatted on the banks of the Genesee River. "Underneath it my relatives sang and played guitars and, if they noticed the sky at all, they were reminded of the lemon groves in Sicily. They were stubborn...
Rube went to New York, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. One day he filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...