Word: chimney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where Santa Claus gave us little presents. But by the age of nine we discovered that the Santa at Gimbel's gave bigger, better things away. And any-how the line was shorter. At age twelve we moved into an apartment house so we knew damn well that this chimney-stack stuff was a farce...
...adventures of a madman in the distorted way a madman might see them. The adventures are not explained but only magnified for the expressionist settings in which the material things are emotional adornments, parts of a state of mind. Cesare's body leans with the lean of a crooked chimney, Caligari appears to grow out of his tent. The wild windows like kites, roofs that look like knives, and the black and white strips across the institution's floor reinforce the uneasiness. But these devices, like the shadows painted on the scenery, are all in the setting, of which...
...recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks up the chimney...
...standards) that he refuses to sit on the kitchen table before he has put "a piece of clean drawer paper under him." There is a smart lad called Red Cheeks, who has been taught by experience that it is futile to drop snowballs down chimneys because they only "get stuck in the bend," whereas a bucketful of water meets with no such obstacle. There is Tutor Pinto Free man, who would have been a good educator had he not believed passionately that "all education is a fraud"; he is always uttering loud groans and hurrying "to the coat cupboard, where...
Died. George Kite, 58, royal chimney sweep, whose firm of Kite & Sons, founded by his grandfather (who swept for Queen Victoria) and continued by his father (who swept for Edward VII), held the royal warrant for sweeping Windsor Castle's 300 chimneys; of pneumonia; in Windsor, England. With a staff of three (including his son, who will continue the family trade), Kite also swept Eton College and the Queen Mother's royal lodge...