Word: chimneyed
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...fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written...
...Manhattan at No. 1 Wall St., at the corner of Broadway and opposite Trinity Episcopal Church, is the "costliest real estate lot in the world." The plot, fronting 29.10 ft. on Broadway and 39.10 ft. on Wall St. and carrying the 18-story Chimney Building, was sold last week for a figure unnamed. Twenty-one years ago the same property sold for $576 a square foot-or $25,000,000 an acre...
...CHIMNEY CORNER STORIES-Veronica S. Hutchinson-Minton, Balch ($2.50). Sixteen well wrought little tales retold to suit those who still delight in beef juice and junket. Cleverly illustrated...
...office formerly occupied by W. S. Burke, inspector of Grounds and Buildings, and C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers, was at the eastern end of Massachusetts Hall. The chimney at that end of the building had decayed and a great pile of bricks, weighing at least 800 pounds was lying on the ceiling directly above the unsuspecting Messrs. Burke and Apted. How long this deadly and unknown peril had thus threatened the lives of the occupants of the office below is not known...
...England's earthquake series, which she has been experiencing in mild instalments since September, 1924, was continued last week. Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory had predicted that the Merrimac Valley would be the region next disturbed, and sure enough, crockery fell, a crumbling chimney crashed, canned goods toppled from shelves in the general store at Ossipee, N. H., and court was suspended for five minutes. In neighboring towns folk ran to the streets to hear their old hills rumble. Then, the granite of New England being no more emotional than the people who dwell upon...