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Although police and fire officials have not yet determined the cause of the blaze, residents of A-entry said yesterday they believe the fire began when flammable soot, which had been building up in the chimney for a long time, caught fire and sent sparks shooting out of the fireplace into an empty room...
...bitter Cambridge winters, has also bit the dust. No more center-ice fantasizing or Gil Perrault imitations. For a while there was talk of an alternate site--interhouse action at the Boston Skating Club. But that seems to have fallen through. So we are left to theses, exams, and soot-covered Cambridge snowbanks...and luckily, the river...
Like two other names now carved in marble, Carnegie and Frick, the Mellons began their rise amid the soot and grime of Pittsburgh. Born on a farm in Ireland, Paul's grandfather, Thomas, broke away from both the homeland and the land itself to become a lawyer, judge, banker and father of eight children. In the post-Civil War era the Mellons gained control of most of what was worth owning in Pittsburgh, which was a fair part of what was worth owning in industrial America...
...exasperating as all saints," a gifted linguist and longtime missionary to India who would squat in the marketplace of Agra reading the Bible to lepers. But when Edmund Knox, sire of the four brothers, took the cloth, it was of a different cut. The tireless worker for his soot-stained Midlands flocks eventually became Bishop of Manchester. But he remained a gregarious and joyful man who loved to trot his family off for a seaside holiday...
...excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph of Dame Agatha's worst prose extolling the "small, and slender" Elizabeth II, who told a story about soot falling from her chimney to put her guest at ease...