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...mountain cabin outside Los Angeles, while his hale wife writhed and screamed in a blazing dress ignited by a gasoline stove, legless, armless Frank Seymour, watching, writhed in his chair, hurled himself bodily across the room to his wife, smothered the flames with his body...
...under his arm in Philadelphia; how his future wife laughed at him for loafing up the street. How he lit up the city with street lamps; the improvements he made in the roads. The city's first fire department; how he founded the circulating library, a new kind of stove, and the American Philosophical Society. His missions to England were exceedingly fruitful; his mistress in France one of the most beautiful women of the era; his gout and his gall stones and a fall down the stairs led to his death. Then again there was the Saturday Evening Post...
...turned over and shivered. His mouth was like the top of a coal stove. The two men in white bent down over him, and their faces turned white. One told the other the Vagabond was dying. The Vagabond stiffened up and was glad...
over a sandbar near North Truro which stove in her hull but did not hold her fast. Rudderless, slowly filling, "she drifted a dreary wreck," while her crew of 27 fishermen fought to get her to port...
Gunnery is Admiral Backhouse's specialty and his favorite yarn is about a retired gunner's mate who dozed off and let his evening newspaper fall against the red-hot kitchen stove. "Fire!'" screamed his wife as the paper blazed. Waking up with a start, the mate rammed the family cat into the oven, banged the door and roared, "Ready, Sir." Though the United Kingdom never heard last week that whimsical Admiral Backhouse & Home Fleet had sailed for Gibraltar, the fact of their arrival finally appeared tucked quietly away in London papers, while world headlines were screaming "WAR!" from Chicago...