Word: chimneyed
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Build me a home; I am lonely, Lonely for a chimney and cat. I've been about and I've found out Life's too big for a flat...
...horrified!" she snapped. "If industry depends on the little hand, then it had better stop. It is difficult for me to speak without emotion, and if the Duchess of Atholl had her way, English children would still be up the chimney and down the mine...
...become popular, although noblemen were still usually so dirty that no sensitive person could stay long in a crowd of them. At Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting at chimney-pots. He fell violently in love with Mrs. Fitzherbert, twice widowed at the age of 25. A gentle, reserved woman and a devout Catholic, she did not approve of his wild behavior. In 1785, to prove his sincerity, he married her secretly, thus establishing a royal mystery which was not solved...
...Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath...
...Cinemactress Shirley Temple went a special gold statuette. Said Toastmaster Irvin S. Cobb: "When Santa Claus did you up in a package and dropped you down Creation's chimney, he brought the loveliest Christmas present that I can think of in all the world. . . . I'll give you this, if you'll give me a kiss." Said stoic Shirley Temple, up three hours after bedtime: "Thank you . . . very much." When Claudette Colbert received her prize, she burst into tears. Said Clark Gable: "It's a grand and glorious feeling but I'll be wearing...