Word: chimneyed
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...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
...play he toted rocks to make a chimney at his camp's "civic centre...
...them. Then he went to get a drink. His six-year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water...
...appeared between the chimneys. From this I gather that it was considered too difficult to "shinny" up the chimney, or perhaps, the conclusion was reached that the chimney was as hot as H although it did not look that way. However, if the enterprising Freshman ever decides to "shinny" up the chimney, the fact should be announced in your columns. P. C. '32 P. S. if you don't print this, do you think the "Lampoon" would...
...their pre-convention claims about delegates. They admitted that the arrival of the big and baffling Pennsylvania delegation was like the night before Christmas. New York and Massachusetts would do as Pennsylvania did and that would decide matters. Discovering what Pennsylvania would do was like peeping up the chimney for Santa Claus. The figure whom the Hooverites first saw in the chimney, and whom a nettled press credited with being the real though surprising Santa Claus, was not the frosted patrician, the supposedly all-potent Secretary Mellon. It was sooty and corpulent William S. Vare, the Philadelphia boss whom...