Word: lofting
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...happening to Britain's "last chance" empire was a recent scene in the slums of Accra, Gold Coast colony. A young native sprawled sullenly in the shade of a tin-roofed shack, cluttered with goats, baskets, buckets and children. Out of the dry dusty litter a pigeon loft reared up ten feet into the hot air. "I fight in war," said the young native. "I discharged. Money gone. No work. No go back up country." He slumped farther back in the shade of the pigeon loft. Said a white colonial official: "There's food for Communism...
Concerted Effort. In St. Louis, Organist Frederico Aquardo sang two solos, played the wedding march, hurried down from the loft to be bridegroom...
Joseph Untermeyer, 19, adopted son of relentless Punster* and Anthologist Louis, was cleared of illegal possession of firearms. Arrested a month ago in a Manhattan loft building that held a small arsenal, he explained that he was just wrapping bundles of food and clothing for Palestine, didn't know anything about the arms. The court believed...
...started to work in 1938, when he was just out of the University of Pennsylvania. To his $500 savings, his father, James, a textile jobber, added $5,000. With the money, they formed Airedale Worsted Mills, Inc. with Joe as president. They rented a loft in a Woonsocket (R.I.) mill, bought some secondhand machinery, hired two workers and started weaving worsted fabrics...
...lovers in 1678 went to a small room above a coal shop in Jerusalem Passage. There, every Thursday night for 40 years, Thomas Britton, "the Musical Small-Coal Man," gave the capital's best concerts. He hawked coal by day in the streets, once a week saw his loft "filled with rank and fashion; every distinguished foreigner who came to London was treated to one of Thomas Britton's concerts . . . scholars, famous musicians and dilettanti were glad to sit with him and enjoy the taste and learning displayed in his talk." One Thursday night, a kidding ventriloquist told...