Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vicar's wife told me a little owl fell down her chimney, and that he was as black as a sweep; she picked him up and he fainted. She fetched brandy and gave him some in a spoon and he revived. She put him out of doors and his mother flew down and collected him. I once picked up a tawny owl after a gale; he was apparently dead, but he came round after some time spent on hot pipes. It is surprising what warmth will...
...spot Norris paddling along in one of the required exercise classes, and prevail over his protestations to come out for the varsity team. Last year's 440 yard ace, right behind top scorer Jerry German, figured he would be wasting his time. He could remember failing off a chimney scaffolding at the age of 12 and seriously damaging one leg. Two and a half years in casts and pulleys permanently shortened the limb, plaguing. Norris with a serious limp...
...rowdy, ill-clad and ill-fed. And, more than in other times, avid for the show that would lift it, not by illusion but by legitimate right, into a symbolic reminder of its own worth. As they waited, chaff flew. When black smoke poured from the palace chimney, a wit said: "Blimey, now they've gone an' burnt the blinkin' soup...
Philip was first almost early, then almost late. He popped out of Kensington Palace at 11 o'clock, shook hands with a chimney sweep (for luck), glanced at his watch and popped back in again. At 11:05 he and his best man, the Marquess of Milford Haven, set out in a limousine for the Abbey, after Philip, glancing at his watch again, said: "Bad show, we're a little late." "Cutting it a bit fine, isn't he?" murmured a lady at the palace as Philip sped...
There, six weeks ago, the executive committee of the R.P.F. held the most fateful meeting in its brief history. Most of the twelve men were smoking and the air was a thick blue haze. De Gaulle smokes like a chimney in moments of stress; so do his political theorist, Novelist Andre Malraux (Man's Fate, Man's Hope} , and his chief administrator, swarthy, bespectacled Jacques Soustelle. Charles de Gaulle said, "Messieurs, je vous écoute" (Gentlemen, I am listening...