Word: hearths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quickening pace was felt by big and small alike. Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Sharon Steel each fired up an additional open hearth at their Youngstown plants. And Crucible Steel, which since the war has poured $100 million into new plants instead of paying cash dividends, declared a quarterly payment of 50? a share, first since...
Ironically, until close to the end (at the age of 54, in 1903), Gauguin believed that he would soon be rich, that he and his wife and children would be reunited, and that he would again be the slippered Papa at the family hearth. The Walter Mittys of this world dream of becoming Paul Gauguins; they will be astonished to hear how the Gauguins dream of becoming Walter Mittys...
Suddenly there is a waffling noise in her chimney, the sound of tearing cloth, and a rain of shiny brass buttons into the fireplace. Then, with a loud plop, a red-clad figure appears on the hearth in a cloud of ash-dust, coughing violently. And Virginia thinks the recognizes...
...wonder his clothes are shabby and his beard unkempt and bristling with wood shavings. But he has something for you, Virginia. Shyly he smiles, sneezes, and floats unsteadily up the chimney, leaving a Grandma Moses original on the hearth. Your eyes are lighting up, Virginia. Now you realize. This was Santa Claus...
Hope & Cold Flame. To broach the matter, Mendès invited Adenauer out to a small 17th century château near Versailles which French kings had maintained for favorite mistresses. In a small chamber warmed by a fire on the hearth, the two faced each other across a narrow table: Mendès, hooded, saturnine, a man like a cold, dark flame that cuts through difficulties or friendships with impartial efficiency; old Konrad Adenauer, German man of good will, behind whose craggy face still loomed the memory of his nation's blood-ridden record...