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...raise after 20 years' service with the company. But Mrs. Northen was even more frugal. Until a few years ago, she had no modern appliances in her home; food was kept in an old-fashioned icebox. She had no radio, and her house was heated by a wood stove. She dressed plainly, wore black cotton stockings. She drove a 1928 Studebaker until her father heard that people were laughing at her and gave her a Cadillac...
...residence of Henry Potter, South H Street ... It passed through a north window of the kitchen, showering bits of glass upon a paper which Mr. Potter was reading and into the hair of a child he was holding on his lap, then struck an iron pot standing on the stove at which Mrs. Potter was cooking, when it fell flattened into a pan in which a beefsteak was being cooked . . . Where the bullet came from was a mystery, and the Potter family hope that no one is angry at them...
...leader, friend in need of the political faithful, comptroller of patronage and state-relief funds, and father confessor to anyone with a problem. Cooper found that as many as 30 people crowded into his office every morning. His desk was in the corner of the room and the potbellied stove was in an adjacent corner. Cooper recalls what it was like on a cold day: "Early in the morning everybody would cluster close up around the stove until...
Often while his mother was cooking a meal, Sam sat beside the old Home Comfort stove and discussed his future with her. For a while he thought of going to college on a football scholarship. In the end, he chose golf...
...Hecht had confined his autobiography to a personal record of such activities, it would have made more interesting reading. But he has padded it with feats of overblown metaphor ("My throat is sick with too much living, as if I had swallowed a long stove pipe") and bursts of gassy lamentation ("About those around me-hardly any have ever given me anything I could use as a human being -love, understanding or comfort"). A Child of the Century drives home the lesson that words and phrases are best kept short and plain-a fact Hecht might have learned from...