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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...
Since June 1940, every British family has kept its shotgun and poker, pitchfork and flatiron ready to use against invaders whenever the church bells rang. This week the bells broke their long silence. Over tattered city streets, shining holly hedgerows, silvering fields and the camouflaged tin huts of army encampments the rolling echoed, celebrating with propriety victory in Egypt...
...scrapping of present dies for munitions (TIME, May 18) and war's speed-up of industrial invention are bringing extraordinary changes nearer. Soon after war's end, Americans will be able to ride in cars that look like a tear drop, an egg, or a flatiron...
...colloquial synonym for magnitude, Manhattan's 21-story Flatiron Building went out of style about the time the automobile began to replace the horse. In the U. S. Army, the horse up to last week was still holding its own. The Chief of Cavalry (which includes the Army's only mechanized brigade) was still a horseman (Major General John K. Kerr), who gets the heaves when he has to think about gasoline engines. General Wesson's offhand remark told more than he knew about the attitudes which underlie, enmesh, explain the Army and Navy...