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...arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern chair; the scurrying forms occupied by nothing, the sight of Sever's portent walls, ugly without benefit of age, called in him a longing for life, for knowledge, for power, and love, ere it were too late. In the distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/18/1933 | See Source »

Anyhow you provided a grand overture for the main show, and now that the debris is swept up and the chimney patched. I ask-do we get that last 7 minutes (5:53 p.-6 p. P. S. T.) that we missed or must it too be listed with the casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: House Organ | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Manhattan, the Central Postoffice inquiry section received nearly 10,000 letters for Santa Claus. Addresses: The North Pole Region; Artie Oshun; Sky Heavens; Top of the Earth; Chimney Top Street; No. 1 Main Street, North Pole; Alaska; Freezing Lake, N. P.; The Happy Land Where There Is No Depression; Over the Hills & Far Away; Santa Ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...Japan to adopt the one price system, now employ 1,300 people. There was a short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled among the celluloid ornaments, then jumped to a counter piled with celluloid toys, which exploded. The building was fireproof, but its rotunda made an excellent chimney. From the third floor to the roof roared a mushroom of flame and smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Shirokiya's Bargain Day | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

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