Word: stairway
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...entrance, shifted her burden, showed her ticket and went inside. The shelter was one of the safest in London-a new subway station, not yet in service, with platforms which are some 60 feet below street level and can accommodate thousands. Down to the lower level ran a stairway with 22 steps, a landing with a turn, ten more steps. Some 2,000 had already gathered below...
...cause a great inundation of plaster. I used all the four sacks of plaster that were in the room. . . . As the [plaster] was greatly diluted, [it] was able to flow under the doors. Soon I could hear the sound of the cascade . . . flowing from the top of the stairway all the way down to the entrance hall . . . that whole great stairway inundated by a river of plaster majestically pouring down was most startling. . . . I was forced to stop to admire this sight, which I mentally compared with something as epic as the burning of Rome. . . ." Having described this epic, Dali...
...Shall we start, pilgrims . . . Yeah! Yeah! ... by taking the people of Harlem, pilgrims . . . Yeah! Yeah! ... up the long stairway to heaven, pilgrims. Yeah! Yeah! Preach that word brother...
Panic's Start. Before Joyce Spector reached the cloakroom, the Cocoanut Grove was a screaming shambles. The fire quickly ate away the palm tree, raced along silk draperies, was sucked upstairs through the stairway, leaped along ceiling and wall. The silk hangings, turned to balloons of flame, fell on table and floor...
...freedom of opinion in wartime. He attacked the outcry over the sinking of the Lusitania, claimed it was sentimental to weep over the loss of a few rich passengers at a time when millions were dying horribly at the front. Dropped by dozens of friends, he lived with his stairway barricaded by iron spikes, continued to write violent criticism of the British...