Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house. The news he brings gets him the friendship of Insurance Broker John Julius Angerstein (Sir Guy Standing), a foothold in the ring of marine underwriters...
...Cartersville, Ga. Negro Pinkie Frazier climbed a 102-ft. chimney, gibbered at 20,000 onlookers, threatened would-be rescuers with bricks. Cried a Negro preacher before Pinkie fell to his death: "You sho' is nearer Heaven than you'll ever be again...
...included it. In the monosyllabic First Reader, small scholars read of the lame dog, cured by a veterinary, which expressed its gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate into insanity...
...place alone it is possible to break through. The Rishinala, the gorge made by glacial waters draining from these peaks out of the valley, provides a long chimney 4,000 feet deep, along the walls of which it will be necessary to pack the supplies. Shipton and Tilman, two Englishmen who discovered the gorge in 1924 and the only men ever to enter this valley, found that it took them two days to work through the Rishinala before they were able to get to the valley...
...conditioning, Dr. Gorrie placed the ice in "an ornamental mantel vase, urn or basin" suspended close to the ceiling by chains. Immediately above the ice a hole was made in the ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air contracting around the cold ice created a partial vacuum which sucked outside air from the chimney. This blew over the ice, spilled down around the room, cooled the patient's fever...