Word: stove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table where he was sitting instead of on the floor, the cool clean air would never have reached his poisoned lungs. Then came his fight with fumes and cold. Cold of eighty below zero which he must endure or else run the risk of the deadly smoke from the stove. Yet he never told Little America of his plight for fear they might lose their lives trying to save him during the winter storms...
...could shoot Indians or pan gold. He was going to have to do it the hard way. Security was no more, and even America's muchtouted opportunity was slowly vanishing. And yet somehow Vag was distinctly glad he had not been one of the founding fathers, with their stove-pipe hats and bigoted ways and narrow, distorted minds...
...Early audience behavior can be gauged from an old program note respectfully requesting spectators "not to spit on the stove...
...finding to marine fire inspectors. A troublemaker since she was built in Hamburg in 1923, the Deutschland in 1925 collided with the Britisher Martin Carl in the English Channel, same year cracked two other ships in the Elbe, had a mild fire at sea in 1929, and in 1933 stove a hole in the Munson Liner Munargo off the Statue of Liberty in New York...
During a performance of La Boheme in London's Covent Garden, Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli unintentionally lighted a stage stove in the garret scene. Intrepid Gigli, singing like a lark the whole time, edged into the wings, seized a bucket of water, doused the fire...