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...board three hours an evening as cashier. Then she drove six miles across the prairie to her school in Scott Township. It is a square, white frame building between a pasture and ; field of yellow corn stubble. Miss Campbell unlocked the door, lit a fire in the big Waterbury stove in the corner. Soon, trudging up the road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards, two Hotzes, Lorraine Stockman, Frances Mc-Namer, Bertilla Loventinsky and Doris Augustine. Total: 13 girls five boys. Ages...
...coffee pot had boiled over on the new stove, extinguished the flame. Little Bruno lay on the floor, Amelia on the bed. The emergency crew worked on the two for a fruitless hour before they finally gave up. Angelo's three years had become a life sentence...
...lank figure with a stove-pipe hat has been doing an inordinate amount of stalking through the American scene of late. In our time, when democratic theories are coming in for more than their share of doubt, Abraham Lincoln, hero of democracy par excellence, has become an important symbol at the expense of the man himself. Great eulogies and great debunkings have been poured over his faded memory, rearing him into some abstract, semi-divine legend. In the play, "Abo Lincoln in Illinois," two men--Robert Sherwood, playwright, and Raymond Massey, actor--have striven to bring him back to life...
...mail-train robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand in the flames, salvaged only one 500-ruble note. When he was captured and was told to run a gantlet of soldiers swinging riding crops, he walked through, head high, holding a book under his arm. Last week this man was trading in empires...
Metro put $3,000,000 into The Wizard of Oz, left out only the kitchen stove. Its tornado rivals Sam Goldwyn's The Hurricane. Its final sequence is as sentimental as Little Women. Its Singer Midgets, most publicized of all the picture's cast, go through their paces with the bored, sophisticated air of slightly evil children...