Word: woodwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside, La Flamme's is neat without being gaudy. There are no pennants and very few tonic bottles; the woodwork is distinctive, everything is quite plain and simple. La Flamme's retains a great deal from the past, because its two present owners don't believe in major changes and because that's the way its people seem to like things...
...expected mass confusion to which the librarians were resigned failed to materialize, said McNiff, because few men got around to doing anything. Sneaking around corners and up stairs, and fingering the woodwork in small groups, they had no time or inclination to ask questions or take out books...
...wore on. That night, the sea suddenly belched forth a dreadful spew of trunks, mattresses, chairs, stateroom doors and barrels on the sands near Race Point. The bodies came more slowly, rolling inertly in the surf. Explained a coast watcher: "The bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they get into the undertow and are tossed up on the beach." The watches found on the dead had stopped at a quarter past nine...
Compared with the huge pile of Gothic above it, the Psychology Department's home is as out of place as a television set in a monastery. Bright tile floors, fluorescent lighting, carved woodwork, and brick glass inlays give an aura of ultra-modernism that outdistances anything else in the University...
Fire swept through a Hastings Hall suite last night and in 15 minutes reduced the room of three law students to a smoking mass of burnt woodwork and soaked furniture. Damage may amount to over...