Word: stoker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. James Hanley was born in Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the age of 13, joined the Army during the War, has worked as a stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, postman, and has been a centre of critical controversy since he began to write. His grim short stories, Men in Darkness, and his novel, Boy, won praise from the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence and other English writers, censure from Author Hugh Waipole and critics who believe that fiction should be polite. Deeply influenced by Balzac and Turgenev, James Hanley has a special dislike for the romances of Joseph...
Further details: This building generates all its own electricity for lighting, elevator power, ventilating power, and makes all its own ice as well as steam for heating purposes. The Combustion Engineering Co. are now installing the latest model Coxe Traveling Grate Stoker and the Jeffrey Mfg. Co. are installing special ash-handling equipment. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. ("blue coal"), tenants of the building, were a factor in bringing about this change, and their engineers assisted in planning this coal-burning installation...
Engineer William Gilbertson and Stoker John Jackson of Britain's crack train, "Royal Scot," now on exhibition at the World's Fair, said the train ride from Chicago to Manhattan was the longest they ever had. But they reminded newshawks that the "Royal Scot's" 300-mi. trip between London and Carlisle (80 mi. from Edinburgh) is the longest non-stop train-trip in the world, with the train averaging 60 m.p.h. Bragged Stoker Jackson: "But she can do a bit more than that. We've had her up to 100." "Better say 90," cautioned Engineer...
Good horror stories are rarer than almost any other kind of fiction. When the blurb-writer for The Werewolf of Paris wanted a horror-classic to compare it with, he hit on Bram Stoker's famed Dracula (1899). still the seldom-disputed favorite in its field. Author Endore's discursive narrative does not keep up to Dracula's plane but it has its moments...
August Gobel, stoker, and Adolph Weigand. policeman, sat in the boiler room of the Christian Feigenspan ice plant at Newark, N. J. late one night last week. August Gobel knew policemen and liked them. He had spent several weeks in jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal...