Word: chimneyed
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...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...
Seven fire-engines and several hundred undergraduates responded to an alarm sent in last night at 10.10 o'clock from Box 51 when some one saw flames and sparks issuing from a chimney in Matthews Hall. But the bathrobe clad curiosity seekers returned disappointed to their beds; the ringing of the fire apparatus, the raucous, joyous cheering of the students, the laboring of the heavy engines as they sank into the mud, were all for nothing...
...supposed configuration was a mere chimney blaze originating in the fire place of Room 56, on the top floor of Matthews, occupied by W. M. Powell '26 and H. B. Seares 2E.S. Not giving the matter much thought, they had allowed the fireplace to become filled with paper. Evidently some one throw a match or cigarette into the mass of rubbish, which quickly flared up and ignited soot in the chimney. Neither Powell nor Seares could be found when the excitement subsided...
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. No damage was caused, except to the chimney pots of a village named Sutton in Ashfield...
...boys used to tie up the bell with a rope. And in the wintertime they turned it upside down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual method of access was to stand on the roof of Hollis, rope the Harvard chimney and come over on that. But one night, coming up the stairs, the "thieves" avoided the sheet-iron door by going around it. As old Jones used to say. "The boys tore out the plaster and went through the wall...