Word: chimney
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...White House party for 250 children who were instructed to bring presents. These gifts were rebundled and shipped to destitute miners' families at Morgantown. W. Va. whom the Quakers are helping to relieve. As usual on Christmas morning Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey came down the State dining room chimney disguised as Santa Claus and as usual the President got clown on the floor to play with his grandchildren's mechanical toys...
...York, one Teddy, a Maltese cat, crawled down a chimney, wailed loudly for help. Up jumped sleepers, up flew windows. Teddy continued to scream. Angered residents called the police, nine policemen arrived, tried to entice Teddy out with catnip and pork. Teddy stayed put. The policemen chopped through a 4-in. wall, found it was the wrong wall. They chopped another hole, a policeman reached for Teddy, Teddy reached the policeman first, the policeman let go. A boy pulled Teddy out, the S.P.C.A. executed him painlessly with lethal gas, the neighborhood slept again...
...river to get to his mail box. When he did not get his mail at Christmas they surely expected him to get it at New Years anyway. When the New Years past and still he had not come, they began to watch for smoke issuing from his chimney of his cabin. When this proved a failure, they decided that they would have to get volunteers to go to find him. Fred Berling, called Swagger, Geo. Todd and Andrew Swanson offered...
Emperor Hirohito showed no desire to go anywhere near the Weaving Works last week. Three score of the self starved strikers dropped from exhaustion, were carried to a hospital. Hunger striking was not in the contract of the chimney sitting printer. Sympathizers threw him rice balls, hard boiled eggs and apples. Then he was provided with a rope and a bucket, hauled up plentiful nutriment hand over hand...
...hours the weavers in the barn modified their hunger strike, announced that they would eat bean soup, but nothing else. Cauldrons of bean soup were rushed to their aid. A reporter of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun scaled the chimney sitter's stack, asked his name. This the sitting printer refused to give. Said he, his spectacles flashing in the setting...