Word: lofting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing was the same at Tammany Hall. This was the first election night at Tammany's new headquarters, a modest suite in a loft building on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. There was no bonfire outside, no vast crowd roaring to celebrate. The phones, which used to jangle out returns long before the Election Board received any official figures, uttered only an occasional mild buzz...
...Paris Period. In 1932 Fats balked the depression with a rapid month in Paris. There his enthusiastic friends included Marcel Dupré, onetime organist of Notre Dame Cathedral. With Dupré, Fats climbed into the Notre Dame organ loft where "first he played on the god box, then I played on the god box." In Paris Fats also came into cultural contact with a fellow pianist and expatriate named "Steeplehead" Johnson. Fats got home from the French capital by wiring Irving Berlin for funds...
Like his chief, Franklin Roosevelt, Pastor Nelson had a vast disinclination to fire anyone. There were still other sour voices in the choir-loft, bickerings among the elders. There were few new faces in WPB; most of them had come right over from SPAB and OPM. Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge...
...huge, disheveled loft in Manhattan, short-haired A.W.V.S. women in slate-blue uniforms received applicants. Volunteers had numerous wartime careers to choose from: navigation, aerial photography, truck driving, etc. The work of the A.W.V.S. sometimes overlapped the work of the Red Cross, sometimes duplicated the work...
...desirable House, and still less have ever seen the inside of the Germanic Museum. John Harvard made the front page for the first time in three hundred years, and the College was given some comment in the back part of an issue featuring Dissenters and Prison Athletics. The lower loft front corner of Widener was displayed in all its majestic glory, and a view of a Sophomore on a date with a one year old was included. However, most Harvard men didn't get their pictures...