Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Hobe Erwin, a Manhattan decorator, was fired by oil rationing and the trend of history to display his unique collection of 19th-Century coal and wood stoves (prices: $30 to $200). Manhattanites, sweltering all week long, did not buy a single stove, but Hobe Erwin, waiting almost as eagerly as the Russians for a frost, is sure they will. Meanwhile his stoves' iron elegance appealed to amateurs of American...
Type No. 1 in his collection is a Franklin stove. Type No. 2 is the same with a covered front ("The girls," said Hobe, "got precious and wanted fancy doors on their stoves"). Type No. 3 is the box stove sometimes known as the "chunk," forerunner of the kitchen range...
...Money. In Russellville, Ark., R. H. Barnett, who had hidden $102.66 in the kitchen stove, forgot. He got 66? change...
From a few earnest botany classes to the streamlined co-ed Summer School of 1942 is in brief the history of Harvard's summer sessions. Stove-pipe hatted students may not have whistled, but they certainly were startled by the sight of women, in skirts and bustles, attending their lectures and section meetings in the summer...
Death pervades each of Virginia Woolf's best books. In Jacob's Room a dead young man's life fades in other people's memories like a match streak on a tepid stove lid. In Mrs. Dalloway an image of all London shines and synchronizes beneath the reverberations of London's belling clocks. In To The Lighthouse, which Critic Daiches calls "the perfection of Virginia Woolf's art," the rhythms of time and death and change suffuse and subtilize a half-mystic seascape, a long-delayed excursion, an equally delayed resolving of family discord...