Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revived, Mrs. Chimes broke up two small orange crates (cruelly labeled "Sunkist") and kindled a puny blaze in her stove. She went to the icy window, peered down the street in the hope of a glimpse of her husband. Unemployed now, he had gone out ahead of her to queue up at the greengrocer's for a few potatoes. Mrs. Chimes turned to her tiny kitchen and a pile of clothes awaiting washing. She sighed...
Each morning Shafer climbs to his "city news bureau" in a loft over Wittenberg's newsstand. The floor is littered with years of overflow from his orange-crate "files," the whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...
...Mister, will you have a few draps?' He blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said, 'Barm of life...
Suddenly there was a bump, then a shudder. The cockpit was stove in; hydraulic lines burst, spewing fluid over the flight deck. The radio went out. Not knowing what had hit them, the DC-3's pilots brought the disabled ship to an emergency landing at the nearby field at Aberdeen. No one was really hurt...
...writing was on the wall after the first event, with a medley trie of Hob Branard, Chuck Hoolzer, and Stove Wise each contributing part of a half tank final margin. In the 220-yard freestyle, Jerry Gorman of the Varsity was more than a match for last year's distance ace, Ted Norris...