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...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...
Questioning the determined firemen revealed only that the configuration was started by some sort of explosion in a gas stove. However, a stalwart representative of Cambridge's efficient brigade volunteered "We have the situation well in hand...
...softball encounters of the day, Kirkland downed Dunster 10 to 8, while Elephant Stove Madey pitched a one-hitter as Eliot blanked Winthrop 6 to 0. Madey was also the big gun of the winners' attack, poling a homer and a triple in three trips to the plate. Manse Jennings also hit heavily...
...works or a railroad cutting." Hanley, England (see cut) is an example. In workers' housing the one-family room became standard from Dublin to Bombay. Coketown (Mumford's name for the industrial city taken from Dickens' Hard Times), was so shrouded with smoke that "the black stove pipe hat was almost a functional design...