Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press arrives first at these affairs. It seats itself in rows of wooden chairs, and smokes for a few minutes while the incongruous little iron stove fights a losing battle against the chill from outside. Presently General Wedemeyer comes in and sits at a desk, like a schoolmaster. Behind him is a big map of China. At his left stands an interpreter...
Food ran low; the Erma's passengers ate but one meal a day. To cook it, one woman held a Primus stove down on the deck, a second held a pan to the flame. Often the stove bounced and rolled; food and fuel spilled, threatening the boat with fire. Day after day the shivering women read aloud to quiet their shivering children; during the worst of the storms the men on deck sang to reassure them. Finally a U.S. destroyer sighted the dingy sailboat, pulled alongside. Her crew passed down food, cigarets, fuel. The Erma was 100 miles...
...wrong. But the hope it kindled had several results. It perked up sagging G.O.P. morale. It whipped Republican Congressmen into a determination to draft a program of their own-and soon-probably before the G.O.P. National Committee meets in Chicago on Dec. 7. It also started the first hot-stove-league talk of 1948 presidential candidates...
...Phillips Oppenheim, 79, who has written 150-odd thrillers about international espionage, murder, grand dukes and grand larceny, returned to his prewar Guernsey (Channel Islands) home. On the Oppenheim stove: a sizzler with World War II trimmings...
...painter was Terence Duren, frail, 40, ferocious lampooner of womanhood, an ex-Chicago Art Institute instructor, ex-Greenwich Village freelancer. For the occasion, he dolled up his studio, a former mortuary off Shelby's Main Street, with bouquets of gladioli in milk pails. He also painted his potbellied stove azure and white...