Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not Mr. Joseph Undergraduate knows that the little balconies on the new Rare Book Library were inspired by 19th century Chinese Chippendale, or whatever he thinks about the take chimney and pseudo-balustrades skirting the roof, he will have no doubt, if curious enough to glance inside after the formal opening two months hence, that the building's interior looks as old as the ancient volumes it houses...
...nearly half an hour, Cadet Wieser crisscrossed the gridiron, waggled his wings like a light-drunken moth, hoping that somebody would understand, clear the field so that he could land. The spectators were fascinated but the players paid no attention. Then things happened fast. He 1) knocked the chimney off a house, 2) tore down a high-tension line and put the stadium lights out, 3) ran out of gas. Landing willy-nilly, he headed for a crowded parking lot, plunked his ship down in a driveway, rolled to a stop ten feet short of the nearest automobile. Said...
High on the rooftop of his Stamford, Conn. home, hulking, sad-eyed Novelist Sholem Asch (The Nazarene, Three Cities) fought a chimney fire, was overcome by smoke, had to be hauled down by the laundress...
...Crimson Network will bring Christmas Eve to the Square a little before time by dropping Ann Corio down Harvard's radio chimney at 7:30 o'clock this evening...
Unlikely as it seems, some Americans may be stuffing bills into mattresses or up the chimney. Unlikely is it too that $800,000,000 is being used in place of checks. That would mean that on the average every adult man or woman is carrying around $9 more in his pocketbook than a year ago. Unlikely is it also that so much money can have gone abroad. Travelers in these days probably carry more cash than formerly, but travelers are fewer. Considerable amounts of money may have been sent abroad by mail. U. S. currency exported by banks (net) amounted...