Word: chimneyed
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Both Briggs and Princeton goalie Nick Angell came out of the game looking like dripping chimney-sweeps. Briggs played a terrific game, frequently diving head-long into the mire to take goals off the toes of the Princeton forwards. On one save, he knocked one of the uprights askew with his shoulder...
...Josef Breuer (1842-1925), Freud published the case histories of five victims of hysteria-the most notable of which was the "Case of Anna O." Breuer had discovered that Anna tended to lose her symptoms if she were allowed to talk about them; Anna herself coined the happy phrase "chimney sweeping" to describe such therapy, and thus led the way to the idea of psychological "catharsis...
...Jones's own unbreakable silence during chimney sweeping has given rise to the hyperbolical legend that his patients hear him speak only twice: "How do you do?" at the first meeting, "Goodbye" at the last...
...Orleans (Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine; Columbia LP). Two favorite singers blend their talents for a reminiscence of New Orleans. The Stafford-Laine city is a place of chimney sweeps (Raminay!), gastronomy (Jambalaya), and nostalgia (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, etc.). Some of the backgrounds give a jazzlike lift to the proceedings...
Dennis Port, Mass., Burglar Edward J. Clancy climbed into the chimney of the Stop & Shop store, inched his way down 30 ft. before he got wedged in too tightly to move, two hours later was extricated and arrested...