Word: heapings
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...estate agent. He pushed open the door of the sweet old home. The door fell off its hinges and struck Mr. Blandings, the prospective buyer, on the right temple. " 'You'd have to do a little pointing-up here,' " said the agent, gesturing carelessly at a heap of stones that might once have been a fireplace. " 'Mind your head as we make the turn,' " he added, entering a void: " 'I want you to see the living room.' " At once, a Revolutionary wooden beam disengaged itself. Mr. Blandings staggered under the blow...
...grim, Lysol-haunted Municipal Lodging House. He would pass the morning reading tattered newspapers. At eleven, he would pick up his crutches (to which his spare shoes and a bundle of other belongings were lashed) and get a chicken fricassee dinner. Then, slowly, he would go back to the heap of limp newspapers...
...will get "one of the sweetest of them all." The society of Audubon Artists will honor her for making the most "notable contribution to radio" in the last year. The dividend: her portrait painted free by Maximilian A. Rasko, who has done Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and a heap of crowned heads...
...tears fell as the war-built structure, tottering for many months, collapsed in a heap of paper forms. At the end, even its once best friends admitted that trying to keep the structure propped up would do the economy more harm than good. Said the President: "There is no virtue in control for control's sake." But he had one last word of excuse for the Government's failures-"the unworkable . . . law which the Congress gave us to administer...
...Earl of Halifax, who often talked of turning farmer after he was through being Ambassador to the U.S., was getting closer to the earth. The towering lord of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire was moved by servant trouble and householder's headache to sell the hulking heap, plus a few of his many lordly acres, to an Anglican sisterhood (Order of the Holy Paraclete). The sisters planned to use it for a school building, and m'lord planned to move into the stable...