Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 3, 2025
You always call her Kitty." Farnsworth chuckled. "Call her KITTY! why, I'd sooner call the Flatiron Building 'Kitty. It would be about as appropriate." "Well, anyway, you told Adele that you loved Kitty with all your heart and soul." A great light seemed to break upon Farnsworth. He looked at Patty for a moment, with slowly broadening smile, and then he burst into irrepressible laughter.
"I'm a lawyer," said the corkscrew, proudly. "I am accustomed to appear at the bar." "But you're crooked," retorted the King, "and that debars you. You may be a corking good lawyer, Mr. Popp, but I must ask you to withdraw your remarks." "Very well," said the corkscrew, sadly; "I see I haven't any pull at this court." "Permit me," continued the flatiron, "to press my suit, your Majesty.
The horses pounded up hills, slid into washes, and plowed through sand on a Spanish trot, sometimes in the moonlight, more often in darkness. The going was rough, but they could not afford to slacken speed. When they reached the edge of the mesa that looked down on the Flatiron the moon was out and the valley was swimming in light. They followed the dip of a road that led down to the corral.
Above them, on a broken cornice, some resting swallows twittered. All at once the girl spoke. "See the Flatiron Building over there!" said she. "What a hideous wreck!" From Stern she took the telescope, adjusted it, and gazed minutely at the shattered pile of stone and metal.
The wagon road suddenly broke off short and plumb as if you tossed a biscuit over the edge of the Flatiron roof. I got out and looked down and then went dumb! Afterwards, Mrs. Judge Abbott told me they thought I was afraid to come down. It wasn't that!
And, because she believed in a combination of faith and deeds, she took three nails and the linen-room flatiron, and nailed shut the window onto the fire-escape.
Every time I take a chance I'm gambling. So does everybody else. When you walk past the Flatiron Building you bet it won't fall down and crush you. We've got to take chances to live." "How true, and I never thought of it," beamed Mrs. Selfridge. "What a philosopher you are, Mr. Macdonald." The Scotchman went on without paying any attention to her effervescence.
So, by the aid of ropes and levers and pulleys and hundreds of brawny backs and straining arms, these monster pieces have been hauled up slopes as steep as that of the Great Pyramid, have been hoisted up walls of rock as sheer and high as those of the Flatiron Building. You question this?
Why, if they laughed at her name she was li'ble to grab hold of the fust thing come to hand, flatiron or frying pan or chunk of stove wood or anything, and let 'em have it rattlety-bang-jing.
He was employed in the office of an architect. He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed though he would not have dared to admit it in New York that the Flatiron Building was inferior to design to the great cathedral in Milan. Out of each week's earnings Chandler set aside $1.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking