Word: stove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until later in the day when the audience is larger. This is rank discrimination against the American housewife, and promises to become a breeder of privilege. Imagine the pleasure that would come into the lives of our wives and mothers if during mornings spent bent over a hot stove or steaming washtub they could turn a switch and hear a lecture from Mallinckrodt, perhaps by Professor Kohler, giving them some new pointers on biscuit...
...drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife and eight children, the powder exploded, razed the house, killed three...
...oven uneaten. Subsequent examination showed that Death came about 11 p. m. but no one arrived until early morning. Then the housekeeper shuffled in to get the Mayor's breakfast and at first only thought he had dozed off in his easy chair near the warm stove and slept the night...
...death of the Minister of Interior by heart failure. In the late afternoon Lille buzzed with rumors of suicide. These became official at 11:30 p. m. and M. Salengro was an nounced to have placed wet cloths around his kitchen windows to seal them, turned on the gas stove, died asphyxiated...
...David Dow, chief Medical Examiner of the city of Cambridge, said the death was accidental, and was caused by gas escaping from a jet in the kitchen stove, which had been inadvertently left...