Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a small, triangular shelf hung between the chimney and a gable, and here Vag could lie, almost completely stripped, protected from the interested gaze of strollers who might happen to glance up at the House roof. Here he could surrender himself to the rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that...
...dusk, the second evening, police attacked. Melinite charges shattered the door, tear bombs were tossed through the windows, sulfur bombs dropped down the chimney by a policeman who swung himself up to the eaves. Finally the Widow Corneuil & sons dashed for the stable, firing as they went...
...Wiltscheck is now finishing a business building for S. C. Johnson & Son (see cut) which is unlike any other in the world. A few miles from Racine, President Herbert Johnson has let Wright build him a house which lies along the prairie in four slim wings. A huge chimney with fireplaces on four sides is in the focal living room. At Bear Run, Pa., Wright has just finished his most beautiful job, "Fallingwater," a house cantilevered over a waterfall for Edgar Kaufmann of Pittsburgh...
...unforeseen snag in a campaign by which he had hoped to raise $20,000 to pay the debts of his new St. Patrick's Church. Father Cox, who in 1935 charged people 25? apiece to see a "miraculous" image of Christ formed in soot on a chimney which he had transported to Pittsburgh from a coal miner's shack in Collier, Pa., lately thought up and copyrighted a "Garden Stakes" contest, with cash prizes...
...unscrew the in-scrutable." Described as having "a vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow newshawks such Indian-style nicknames as Captain-in-Case-of-War Perkins. He is "a Protestant...