Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearth & Home. In Hollywood, Mrs. Catharine Gretchen Lombardo, suing for divorce, charged that her husband spent hours teaching their four-year-old daughter to shoot dice. In Newark, N.J., Mrs. Martha Giles got a divorce after testifying that her husband hit her with a live eel. In St. Louis, Mrs. Brigitte Fitzpatrick, wife of-a psychologist, won her divorce after testifying that her husband kept analyzing her in front of their friends...
...phrase or two, he can put across far more than could paragraphs of pedantic description. Consider his characterization of Mr. Philbrick Grimes, the school busybody, who "zoomed into Princeton at seventeen," and "Kept up a figurative rubbing all the time he talked, like a cat sounding out a hearth." Yet Burns speaks not only as critic, but as philosopher as well: "Capitalism, at least when it's unpanicky, has always tolerated revolutionary criticism from within its own body...
Edgar also took steps to stop the $30-3-ton premium on steel which K-F has been paying. He made a deal to finance the building of a new open-hearth furnace for Republic Steel, buy all the output for five years at market prices. Under the agreement, Republic would continue to sublet the blast furnace at Cleveland which K-F had leased from the Government (TIME, Sept. 6), thus ending a squabble between the two companies and the War Assets Administration...
...Peter Faneuil, warming his toes on the hearth one evening in 1740, decided things in Boston had gone far enough. Not the British, you understand, or the weather, but the markets. Peter, a wealthy merchant, was tired of traipsing all over town doing the family shopping; he wanted a public exchange center, an open market where he could get in out of the rain and cross off his whole list, from snuff to hops, at one time...
...human weakness for profanity is like the human weakness for tobacco-it does not cure anything, but it undoubtedly soothes and caresses. Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist had at him with a bomb, or his wife eloped with the letter-carrier. But on missing a train, or slipping on an orange peel, or losing...