Word: stove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tumulty returned home in Washington from a dinner. He had a severe cold. He thought he smelled gas and went upstairs to find his wife and daughters, Grace and Alice, violently ill and coughing. A physician was called and found them suffering from monoxide gas poisoning. The kitchen stove was suspected...
...final page. Vide such delicatessen as "Do you own much in Flerida?" and its answer: "Oh, lots and lots," or "She: You look much better without those glasses. He: So do you" and even the whiskered one about the coon who burns his finger on the "damned stove" while his wife asks "Why didn't you feel the stove before you put your finger...
Roumania. At least 50 persons lost their lives in the Roumanian floods. At Keresztes five women fled to the roof of a house which presently burst into flames because of the overturning of a stove. To escape being roasted alive, they leaped into the flood, which surged up to the second story, and were drowned. Scores of houses were swept away in the Torda district...
...According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
...will cast you an iron house, with a cast-iron bathtub upstairs and a cast-iron stove in the kitchen. Within 50 miles of our works, we will erect the whole eleven tons of iron for you at a cost of only ?425 ($2,125). You will find the rooms nine feet high, with the living room, kitchen, larder and coal room on the first floor, and three bedrooms and a bath on the second. Fireplaces and a hot-water heating system are provided. Many of our cast-iron tanks are still in use, unpainted, after 100 years...