Word: stove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Istanbul's House of Detention Samuel Insull staged his last fight against deportation. He employed an English barrister, Alexander Mango, to appeal his case to the Court of Cassation (Turkish Supreme Court). When the Turkish attorney general visited him he got more comforts: an armchair, a stove instead of a brazier to warm his cell. Often he was depressed but seldom wept...
Died. George Harrison Barbour, 90, director of Detroit-Michigan Stove Co., "grand old man" of Detroit business; of pneumonia; in Detroit...
Dipping into the workers' quarter, the gale found an iron stove pipe that was loose in its stone collar, sticking out of a peasant's window. Angrily it ripped out the pipe, broke the window. Inside the hut, flame leaped high, licked the thatch ceiling, quickly gobbled up the whole hut. The gale pulled out the flame like taffy, spread it over the next hut and the next...
...Strait, the ice pack closed its fist, began its inexorable squeeze. On the decks, in the rigging, in Professor Schmidt's beard, a heavy load of ice formed. Last week the ice pack broke the Chelyuskin's steel heart. From bow to engine room the port side stove in amid great grindings and crunchings. The sudden cold burst the steam pipes. A plank swept the chief steward overboard...
...Illinois in 1881. He started as a night police reporter, was soon covering murder trials at the Criminal Courts Building. Later he was assigned to the anarchist uprisings that preceded the Haymarket riots. Like other Newsmen, he wrote his stories in longhand, warmed his shins at the fat-bellied stove in the "local" room...