Word: lofting
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...corner of the central window over the main door there was a jagged hole; there were others in the roof. Thousands of small chips, knocked from the carved stonework, were scattered about. The Germans had removed the windows and main altar, bricked up the statues. The choir loft was in ruins, the confessionals smashed and heaps of rubble covered the floors...
That was last December. Last week, in her second big Met role (Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde), Thebom did it again. The sustained critical cheers confirmed her triumph: not only had she successfully made the rare and perilous jump from a Baptist church choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan's stage, but she could plan to stay a while...
...Cherry Point, they are clerks and stenographers in the post administration building. They inspect and pack parachutes at the loft, teach gunnery to the men, operate Link trainers, help in the control tower. The photography department is now exclusively a woman's domain...
...postwar boom found Jimmy making $100 a week with his band at Broadway's Club Nightingale. A waiter named Frank Nolan told him that with a place of his own he could make "a million.'" On his own hook, Nolan rented a 20-by-70 ft. loft above a used-car salesroom on 58th Street, just east of Broadway. There the Club Durant was opened on the cold night of Jan. 22, 1923. Jackson was present. Clayton, a magnificent soft-shoe dancer, who had split with his partner (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards), popped in later. He took...
Five years later Burns and a youth named Bern rented a second-floor loft and opened BB's College of Dancing. They got together a four-piece band so noisy that it had to play near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...