Word: flatirons
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...Maitre Lop, serious and simple in his white celluloid collar, black shoestring tie and tortoise-shell glasses, greeted them from the stage. He wore his usual huge black Homburg on the head his followers say is shaped "like a flatiron upside down, recalling the glory of the Victory of Samothrace." Beside him were his ministers: one in charge of Folklore and Sex, another with the portfolio of Justice, Sports and Leisure, another of Tobacco and Health. The two most important were the Minister of the Fight Against the Opposition, and the Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists...
...Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co.: a cordless electric flatiron, heated while standing on a base. The base, instead of the iron, is plugged into an electric outlet...
...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...