Word: fireproofed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...facts he did not like, and lacking in "sensitiveness toward public affairs." ¶ Franklin D. Roosevelt, under surface shallowness hid "a deep streak of the Dutch." He followed a principle of polarity, i.e., doing two opposite things at the same time (as Frankfurter explains it: "You build a fireproof house and nevertheless take out fire insurance...
...flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...