Word: stair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city, alarm tickers punched out tapes, bells clanged, fire trucks lurched from the stations. Inside the hotel the fire grew as if it were fed by celluloid and gasoline. In five minutes it crumbled marble, melted doorknobs, roared up the multiple chimneys formed by the elevator shafts and the stair wells of the 22-story building. Walls took fire on the first five floors. Superheated gases and choking smoke blew through corridors all the way to the roof. But for what seemed a long time the streets outside stayed as dark and quiet as if nothing had happened. Then...
...vertical, hurly-burly business life. While workers twiddled their thumbs, some nervously, some happily, mail and express packages piled up. Postal men knelt in the littered lobbies and handed out mail to clerks and executives they knew; express agencies had to halt deliveries. There was little extensive stair-climbing...
...weeks later an inquest cleared Louise's husband, but not Louise. Shy little Lee Judson, walked from the hearing straight to a downtown office building, plunged eight floors down a stair well...
...studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...
Heart and Arthritis. A pain above the stomach is sometimes diagnosed as a symptom of angina pectoris, peptic ulcer or gastritis, when the ailment actually is arthritis. If the pain does not come from fast walking, stair-climbing or anger, heart trouble can be ruled out; if there are no symptoms connected with eating, ulcers also are eliminated...