Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Santa Claus the venerable Reichsprädsident never comes down the chimney in person, but like Santa Claus he has plenty of devoted henchmen to make his purposeful deliveries. If Adolf Hitler came home with a swelled head and hot new ideas for Dictatorship from his visit to Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 25). certainly last week he was dextrously chilled and shrunk-and by the very Hindenburg henchman who first presented him to the President, dapper, nonchalant Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen...
...national ruin, let no one say that Roosevelt lacked the courage of his convictions. . . ." The Author- James Paul Warburg, 37, is vice chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., co-author with his wife Katherine ("Kay") Swift of "Can't We Be Friends?" and "Up Among the Chimney Pots." Born in Germany and educated at Harvard he did much of the early spadework for the London Conference. Since his exit from the national stage, he has been a prime leader in the fight against inflation...
...water separated them after two miles, and Cambridge, sure of victory, insolently slowed down. The little Oxford coxswain signaled for more speed. Up went the beat, but his men, badly fagged, could not close the gap, At three miles, Cambridge was three lengths ahead. In nearby London suburbs the chimney pots shook from the cheering, as Cambridge swept over the line in record time, 18 min. 3 sec., a full four lengths ahead, their 45th win against Oxford...
...should have stood up and shouted, 'Shut up, you pilferer, there is a seminary classmate of yours out in China with his work crippled because the money you collected in this congregation to go to him was used by you and your vestry to repair the chimney or to pay your salary...
...from below. He knew what that meant. Someone had banked the furnace fire too heavily and a puff of exploding coal gas had blown open the door. Sleepily he stumbled down cellar, slammed the door shut, went back to bed. He did not notice that a part of the chimney pipe had also been blown...