Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pedal Extremity. In Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Very Perry won a divorce on the ground that her husband, Joaquin, to keep her from running around at night, soaked her shoes in water, put them in the oven to bake and shrink...
...America in 1932, the customs office intercepted them. The Harvard Business office know nothing about them when a call came from the customs broker, so they advised the officials to have them stored. This decision was hastily retracted, however, when the business office discovered that it would cost $400 oven to have them moved...
...force, crashing their way past the ushers, squatting in the press seats, the boxes, sneaking on to the floor. Blue haze reached up to the rafters. The band, the organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey man, Carl Craven, director of the Chicago Light Opera Company, tried to lash the wilting crowd into singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Anna Lucasta (by Philip Yordan; adapted by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Abram Hill; produced by the American Negro Theater). The night was sweltering. The "theater" was an oven of a public-library basement. The seats were hard camp chairs. The company was a small, experimental, rehearse-after-work group. The play itself was billed as the one about the prostitute who attempts to go straight. It looked as if the audience and actors alike were in for an awful beating...
...Casablanca, several P-39s arrived with a vital fitting broken. Spare fittings, of the same material, were not to be trusted in combat. An A.S.C. officer scrounged some asbestos from the French for a crucible, made an oven from adobe brick, heated it with acetylene torches. With aluminum from salvaged German propellers and a little copper he made new hinges, put the planes into combat in three days. When fabric parts needed repairs, the same officer borrowed the only available sewing machine in town from a French dressmaker. It had no needles. He made some out of bicycle spokes...