Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week stories of Lou Diamond's prowess in the Solomons began drifting back to the U.S. On Tulagi he demolished 14 Jap buildings with his trusty 81-mm. mortar. Then he turned to the colonel and bet him $50 he could put a mortar shot down the chimney of the 15th. Lou Diamond won his bet. He was not so successful when a Jap destroyer came prowling around the island one morning before artillery had been hauled in, and planes were not available. His shell fell in the water behind...
...CASE OF THE SMOKING CHIMNEY-Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Author Gardner here makes his annual switch from his lawyer sleuth Perry Mason to his equally nimble-minded California oldster "Cramps" Wiggins, who helps the law understand an apparent suicide in a squalid shack...
Thieving Santa. In Evansville, Ind., somebody who may or may not have arrived by reindeer climbed down the chimney of a barbecue, gathered up two shoulders of meat, 25 pounds of ribs, $18, went up the chimney and jingled away...
...from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...
...Chimney Sweep or Painter? Almost a pre-Pre-Raphaelite was Painter John Everett Millais. At ten, he used to clap "old daddy" familiarly on the back. "Dear creatures," he would say tolerantly of his parents. At this tender age John Everett's mother took her artistically precocious son to see the president of the Royal Academy. "Madam," said the president, "you had better make him a chimney sweep." Then he looked at John's drawings. "Madam," said the president, "it is your duty to bring the boy up to art." At twelve, John Everett won the Royal Academy...