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...remarked that she had found an unbelievable blunder in TIME. In the pictorial section on the World Conference, she said TIME curiously labelled Mr. Morrison's picture with U. S. Senator Couzens' name. On investigation, I found to my amazement that she was right. Thus, "up the flue," went two concepts- TIME'S infallibility, and that the only women who read TIME are "freaks." HARRY H. RICHMAN...
...high school. Three years later they went to Manhattan, to study at Columbia. Now they live in Minneapolis; but she still hopes to go back to South Berwick, to "the house my grandfather built and in which my father was born . . . where I whispered up the chimney flue to Santa Claus, roasted apples in the ashes with my brother, started my first novel at the age of six, saw pumpkin faces at the window on Halloween, watched the marshes freeze over, the crab-apple tree blossom, the hay being hurriedly brought to shelter ahead of the storm and the wind...
...building another at Schenectady. The mercury boilers are dangerous because they might leak mercury, poison the workmen. A delicate mercury detector was in order. It is a yellow plaque of selenium sulfide. A few drops of mercury in a furnace through which pass more than 200,000 Ib. of flue gas an hour, said A. J. Nerad, blackens the yellow plaque. The degree of blackening indicates the amount of mercury present. A photo-electric cell measures the blackening, warns workmen of danger...
...Marshall remained with us here, And then came Coolidge, so silent, yet plain. Quoth he: "Lads must eat, so let's choose It again." . . . So thus the tradition established in fact Decreed a Vice President thereafter shall act. Now when Dawes, with his pipe with its inverted flue Appeared on the scene, which to him seemed quite new And was told of the dinner which custom decreed He promptly assented and ordered a feed. . . . So it came to pass that when Dawes went away A friend of the pages, Charles Curtis, held sway...
Damage: $75.000. Cause: Secretary Newton insisted it was a short circuit. Washington fire chiefs blamed a faulty flue in the chimney from Secretary Newton's office. A fire had been burning on his hearth barely an hour before while he was dressing there for the White House party. The half-story garret above was a fire-nest where flames fed greedily on bundled papers in storage...