Word: chimneyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show starts simply enough as a bedtime story about a nineteenth century chimney-sweep. Then the children and storytellers decide to make an opera out of the tale. As the opera is written, the author gives the audience a part, singing four songs: a prologue, epilogue and two entre-acts. The first set of "Let's Make an Opera" is devoted to the problems of amateurs writing an opera, rehearsing the opera with all sorts of trouble from noisy children, and finally rehearsing the audience. The second act is the opera itself...
...poor little hands, so thin that when she welcomed you she gave you something like the foot of a young bird." Browning himself, with his big, bumped nose, was scarcely Apollo reincarnate. And Old Man Barrett, though rather like an ogre, was hardly as black as hell's chimney after all; Elizabeth called him "Sweet Puppy...
Jimmy and five of his pals went to Indian Mounds Park and tiptoed up to the cave. Ray was nowhere in sight, but smoke was curling out of the cave's chimney. Boldly, the boys dropped some snow down the chimney to make the fire smoke and goad Ray into showing his face. When he did, Jimmy Lewis and his men took one good look...