Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...
...widow Angeline was resourceful. While she put little store by such things herself, she knew that Parisian women loved to soften their skins with greasy pastes, loved to create an artificial bloom to replace the natural color which had faded. The widow Angeline bent over the kitchen stove, mixing potions, whipping them into creams. Each ingredient she showed to the round-eyed, intelligent boy. Thus Louis Philippe was trained to become, not a king, but a maker of cosmetics...
Last week, the widow Angeline, 72, still shuffled about the factory in a faded blue denim dress, big, loose-fitting shoes. Each day at noon she bent over her stove, but she was preparing eggs, not unguents. To her alone is entrusted the task of cooking lunch for Son Louis, now a fattish little man with the traditional French pointed mustache. The widow Angeline has never troubled to learn English, but she knows that Son Louis has made money. She knows he has four motor cars, a home in fashionable Park Avenue, another in a New York suburb, four more...
...last week, that a syndicate was offering the public 40,000 shares of Louis Philippe, Inc., cumulative participating convertible Class A common stock. She would not have understood the financial terms, but she would have known that she did well when she led her little boy to a kitchen stove in Paris...
...year-old son of Candidate Smith's sister, Mrs. Catherine Smith Glynn. It appeared that Nephew Glynn, on sick leave, had drawn his pistol in an alleged speakeasy and said: "How would you like to see what I can do with this?" He fired at the stove, wounded a man, fled to a vacant store, fumbled with his pistol, wounded himself...