Word: stove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They tootled through the Foundation grounds, to the wooded hillside where the Presidential Marine guard was tenting. Pointing, the President said: "There's your tent, Pa. It's been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will build a fire in it and if the water freezes in your bucket you can thaw it out enough to shave." "That's fine," declared the colonel enthusiastically. "Eighty per cent of my service was spent under canvas...
...Stove-Gas. In North China the pretext of a "spontaneous Chinese movement for autonomy" was set up fortnight ago when 25 counties were proclaimed an Autonomous Government by one Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese with a prominent Japanese brother-in-law. Orders to arrest Mr. Yin were telegraphed by Generalissimo Chiang last week to General Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei Province. Unable to arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove...
...came and said you promised him he could have 12 quarts of peaches. I gave them to him. Did you promise him? Some people are living in your other house and won't pay rent and won't get out. Someone stole the top off the stove and broke two windows. Your cross-cut saw is gone and so is that gallon of sorghum. I'd have written sooner to tell you they stole your last four chickens, but I couldn't find a stamp. The moths are in the clothes and two blankets. Both children...
...mountain cabin outside Los Angeles, while his hale wife writhed and screamed in a blazing dress ignited by a gasoline stove, legless, armless Frank Seymour, watching, writhed in his chair, hurled himself bodily across the room to his wife, smothered the flames with his body...
...under his arm in Philadelphia; how his future wife laughed at him for loafing up the street. How he lit up the city with street lamps; the improvements he made in the roads. The city's first fire department; how he founded the circulating library, a new kind of stove, and the American Philosophical Society. His missions to England were exceedingly fruitful; his mistress in France one of the most beautiful women of the era; his gout and his gall stones and a fall down the stairs led to his death. Then again there was the Saturday Evening Post...