Word: chimneyed
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Finches and crows stage nasty attacks, but seagulls turn out to be deadliest. At the climax, Rod Taylor has barricaded his house, nailed planks over the windows, locked the doors, lighted a fire against invasion down the chimney. Suddenly, out of the stillness, comes the thud of heavy bird bodies hurling against the walls, the crashing of glass as birds smash windowpanes, the splintering of wood as beaks peck through the door. One gull manages to wriggle inside a window barricade; before Taylor can strangle it, his arm and hand have been bloodied. The sound track -there...
...handled partly by rented Santa Clauses, who, for about $5, delicately park their cars half a block away from the receivee's home (the better to avoid the reindeer issue), ring sleigh bells rather than the doorbell, but hand over the present instead of escorting it down the chimney...
...Southern California's much-touted sunshine is, ironically, an essential accomplice in making smog so irritating to the eyes and so dangerous to health. The assorted hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides spewed out by chimney stacks and tail pipes are bad enough in the raw. But sunlight sets up photochemical reactions involving such chemicals as ozone (a deadly poison) and nitrogen dioxide (an insidious and lethal gas when it hits the lungs). U.S. Public Health Service Toxicologist Sheldon Murphy neatly proved the perils of sunlight by exposing guinea pigs to city-street concentrations of exhausts. Unirradiated, the gases did little...
Once upon a time there was only one Santa Claus, and all the toys in the world came from his workshop at the North Pole. Every Christmas he would climb down the chimney and leave funny, old-timey toys like Raggedy Ann dolls, Lincoln Logs and Monopoly sets under the Christmas tree. And the funniest thing about it was that toys from one Christmas would still be around next year. How could anybody break a steel steam shovel, or abandon a doll which could actually say "Ma-ma" and shut her eyes when she lay down...
Nary a window in it at all, Sandstone chimney and a puncheon...