Word: fender
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...excitedly under the table for something and then, having secured it, gleefully stands upright. Bang! The table has rushed down upon him and crashed his head for him. He desires a piece of coal from the coal-box and to stoop for it he puts his hands on the fender to balance himself. Yell ! The fender is hot and has jumped at him and blistered him. . . . What a life...
...socialite weddings, for loyal St. Mark's grooms will have no other cleric. Literate St. Marksmen remember his fondness for Robert Burns, whose poetry he reads to favorites. On Sundays before Christmas he reads Dickens' Christmas Carol to Upper Formers, who crowd the window seat and fender rail of his booklined study. "Old Boys" * fondly recall his habit of snorting humorously through his nose, his ceaseless jiggling of his Phi Beta Kappa key. Of his five sons, most spectacular is the second-eldest, Sigourney Thayer, World War aviator, Paris habitue, theatre tyro, husband of Emily Davies Vanderbilt...
Chicago's criminals continued flourishing last week, such criminals as whoever it was that haled Footballer John C. Acher of Northwestern University out of his automobile on Michigan Avenue one night and pumped two slugs into him for scraping a fender as he drove past; and hardbitten Joe Saltis, gun-toting beer gangster, who was still at large last week after a six-month "search" by police who know him well...
John Grisendo, a citizen of this town, reported to the police that while driving past one of the Sheffield buildings with his wife, a soda bottle was hurled out of a window and struck the fender of his machine. His wife, he claims, was on the verge of hysteria when students set up a prolonged cheer as the glassware struck...
Gladstone--Fender, Rideout v. Parke--Hardy, Hargraves...