Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsie Kowalsky could hardly believe her ears. She took another look at the hole in the chimney on the third floor of the dirty-yellow brick building at IO2A Nassau Avenue, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. Then she called again. A man's voice answered her from somewhere below. She cried: "Why don't you come out?" The reply came hollowly: "I want to stay...
...wore long underwear and no trousers. In a matter-of-fact voice he explained that he was Paul Makushak, 33. For ten years, or maybe it was eleven, he said, he had been living in the cramped cubbyhole. His mother, Anna, had fed him by lowering food through the chimney on a clothesline. When his mother became sick and had to be taken to Greenpoint Hospital, she had asked her neighbor, Mrs. Kowalsky, to take over...
Semi-Private Master. The plate-glass side walls were curtained to insure the fact, if not the feeling of privacy. But the second-floor "master bedroom" could be called only semiprivate; it was separated from the living room by nothing except the chimney, a flight of steps, and a heavy curtain. The master, when the curtain was drawn aside, would be able to survey a large part of his home without -'stirring "from bed, for some walls stopped short of the ceiling, as in a bathhouse, to "suggest spaciousness." However, the top of the fireplace doubled as a stair...
...city newspapers are usually too busy reporting the deeds and misdeeds of man to pay much attention to the works of nature. But not always. Last week the Boston Herald heaved an editorial sigh for the wintry seashore where "the moving sands swirl up the dunes and out gullied chimney tops . . . This is the time of smoking dunes." On its good, grave editorial page, the New York Times took note of winter: "Stand by ocean's edge and you can see, feel, hear and smell the grey waters. This is the darkening interlude when the sea changes...
Neighbors hiding in nearby fields told the rest of the story. From behind the chimney, hardly large enough to cover them both, they continued firing with their last rounds of ammunition. Then the guerrillas managed to pick off Anastasios with their Vickers machine gun. As he fell, he started rolling down the slanting roof. George came out from behind the chimney to grab him. He too was caught by the Vickers. He fell across the body...