Word: hisaya
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...fire escapes in the building, but each department was provided with collapsible canvas chutes known as "lifesacks" down which people could slide to the streets. Quick-witted clerks on the fifth floor saved many lives by twisting a life-rope from an enormous bolt of cotton cloth. Miss Hisaya Yoshida, the president's agile secretary, crawled six floors down a drainpipe to safety, nearly fainted as another girl fell to her death from the fifth...
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