Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some babies "never cry." In this case, it was almost literally true. Beverly Smith didn't cry when she fell down; she never cried when she bumped her head. She didn't even cry when she burned her hand on a hot stove...
...with her trailer: "I haven't used it at. all, not even once. It's parked here in the yard." Her Persian lamb coat had to be sent back ("They did not have my size; I need a much larger one"). She has stored her stove and refrigerator, but likes to ride around the Navajo reservation, where she lives, in her shiny new Kaiser. The whole business was really too much bother, says Mrs. Parrett: "No more contests...
...stack, which was later served up and enjoyed by the tried, started a grease fire in the chimney above the stove. When the smoke began billowing out of the kitchen and over the bar into the main room, a customer sent in a general alarm, which brought the fire engines rushing...
...Peng Teh-huai attacked his schoolmaster with a stool. Three years later, young Peng deliberately kicked over his grandmother's opium, which was cooking on the stove, and was banished from the family. Last week, at 48, Peng Teh-huai, as the second ranking general of Communist China, was still going strong. He was basking in kudos from the Communist Central Committee for the "brilliant victory" he had scored over a Nationalist force at Ichuan, 60 miles southeast of Yenan...
...Manhattan, the Vermont mountains and Bermuda, a ten-piece wardrobe, an electric refrigerator, a pantryful of canned goods, a set of fine china and another of flat silverware, a coffee brewer, a carpet, a vacuum cleaner, an electric washing machine, a ten-piece mahogany bedroom set, a gas stove, an electric stove, a fitted calf handbag, an automatic ironer, four end tables, a kolinsky scarf, a pressure cooker, six pieces of leather luggage, a year's supply of bed linen, an electric mixer...