Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the House. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Margrutte Hall sued her husband for $6,000 damages, charging that she would have had a "desirably situated" apartment, if he had not 1) removed a door, 2) taken down the chimney so the soot blew back in, 3) made a twelve-foot opening in the basement wall which froze the pipes and deprived her of running water...
Love's Labor Lost. In Izmir, Turkey, when Salih Ozcan decided to play Don Juan to a neighbor's wife, he waited until the husband had left home, got hopelessly stuck trying to enter the house by way of the chimney, was rescued by neighboring farmers who pulled down the chimney to get him out, received a severe beating, six months in jail, and the bill for a new chimney...
...Chimney. Two days later, the government began cracking back in earnest. While armed police stood ready to block any demonstration at the lie de la Cite, where Duclos was being held, other police searched the Duclos home. Next day, the police raided Communist headquarters all over France. As 400 cops leaped from vans outside the massive stone building marked Comite Central du Parti Communisté in Paris, three lookouts slammed the door. A moment later, dense smoke began pouring from the chimney. By the time the police broke in half an hour later, most of the evidence was gone. Other...
...roof of Enamelstrip Corp. in Allentown, Pa. last week clambered Lehigh County Judge John H. Diefenderfer. There he sniffed suspiciously at the company's chimney. For months, nearby residents had been after an injunction against Enamelstrip as a public nuisance for the stench given off by its ovens (which bake enamel on to metal at 500° Fahrenheit). Judge Diefenderfer, after several judicious sniffs, said: "I can't smell a thing...
...Manager Arthur E. Uhleen, are almost too good to believe. The original purpose, to eliminate odors and other pollution, proved to be merely incidental to a big increase in the whole plant's efficiency. Not only odors but energy in the form of heat was going out the chimney. Houdry's catalytic units are capturing and saving it, so that Enamelstrip's gas bill has been...