Word: flatirons
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...would know which of several suitors to accept, she should put initialed onions beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits with loathing at the mere mention of regular doctors...
...Give me the money," said he, "and I guarantee to build in Berlin a tower three times taller than the Empire State Building with windmill vanes each as large as the Flatiron Building in New York...
Since last November the urbane B. B. C. has been moving piecemeal from quarters adjoining the famed Savoy Hotel on the River Thames back and up to its new Broadcasting House, an eight-story flatiron building between Regents Park and Oxford Circus. Termed by its Latin inscription a Templum Hoc Artium et Musarum, the big white flatiron is dedicated Deo Omnipotent, managed by lohanm Reith Equite (John Reith, Knight...
Studios are located one above another in a noise-deadening brick tower which fills the centre of the flatiron. "Moisture given off by people in the tower," according to B. B. C., figures out at "one ton in a twelve-hour...
...radio stations, no license fee for receiving sets. Canada has 66 stations. It taxes receivers $2 per year, figures that there are some 100,000 "bootleg sets" in the Dominion. In the British Isles there are 22 stations, all directed from the B. B. C. flatiron. The license fee of ten shillings per set (about $1.80 at current exchange) supplies the chief revenue of the B. B. C. and most listeners feel they get their money's worth. From licenses B. B. C nets around $4,500,000 per year, nets another $600,000 from the sale of its publications...