Word: loft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over this room was the "spring house loft" and in it was a big fireplace where hung the iron "crane" with its "pot hooks." On that crane hung the huge copper kettle in which the apple butter was made...
...land allowed the sweeping dunes of his native sea coast, Oakland Hills is notable for its raised, table-like greens. This feature tends to handicap players like Sarazen, who hit low-flying iron shots, favors bigger, stronger players like Snead, Dudley and Guldahl who can use clubs with more loft to drop the ball on the table from on high...
...Rubenstein has departed with his slaked lime, but others have come to take his place to divert the Vagabond. A great pipe organ rises in the loft of the main hall. Wires, pipes, bellows and queerly shaped pieces of wood are strewn about in ordered confusion. It seems fitting that there should be an organ here to express in music the Wagnerian scenes of Lewis Rubenstein's murals, but I fear for the effects of its vibrations upon the fragile plaster casts of mediaeval saints...
...Yardling net was easily the most outstanding player on the ice. Throughout the game he made seemingly impossible stops and was unbeatable until well into the third period. At least ten times he came out of the net to smother the shots of Elis who had only him loft to beat. Freedley has had a brilliant record all season and rates a good chance of being Varsity net minder next...
...Maroc (Cesar Romero) whom they expect to find loitering jealously near his ex-wife (Margaret Lindsay). The crisis of the picture arrives during a wedding ceremony which, planned as a trap for Gangster Maroc, fails when Maroc, instead of shooting the bridegroom, merely snickers at him from the organ loft...