Word: grates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than to bask in the afternoon sunlight which is streaming in the window, or warm the hands before a fire burning in the grate. After you have stopped admiring the bright yellow oriental rug on the floor, you will probably become aware that the Dean is talking to you, asking you questions, and putting the problem fairly up to yourself...
Thus began the "re-enactment"' of the first balloon ascension made 150 years ago at Annonay, France by the Brothers Montgolfier. The Montgolfiers' balloon (globe aerostatique) likewise was lifted by hot air. It carried a lire grate beneath the open mouth of the bag to maintain the hot air supply. The Bonettes were commemorating that event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute...
Died. Clinton Grate, 33, one of four convicts who started the 1930 Ohio State Penitentiary fire (dead: 322); by his own hand (hanging in his cell); in Columbus, Ohio. Of the four, two have died by self-hanging, one gone insane, one remains in the penitentiary...
...have had ever-sharp poneils of red barn paint, our co-eds need only rompers and a sense of humor (nearly impossible for a co-ed) to clown. The Clara Bow month on our buxom cornfed lassies is just another Cumberland gap in disguise, and the termination of Grate Garbo lip in a dimple is the ending of an opera in "Pop Goes the Weasel." But most mouths are nothing more than Halloween scares--impossibilities after the age of 12 years...
...rambling, soot-stained St. James's Palace the final plenary session began at 10 a. m. Small grate fires accented the palace chill. Shivering and snuffling, the delegates climbed the crimson-carpeted grand stair. They were grimly resolved to utter 33 prepared orations if it took all day and all night, which it very nearly...