Word: flue
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Further hurting Harvard's performance was the condition of freshman John Horn, who played in spite of a bout with the flue...
...winked at her. "My God," thought Beverly, "that's not a very novel approach." Next he sent her a mash note on the inside of a matchbook cover. Then, dining her in his 25-room house on Lake Erie, he lit a fire but forgot to open the chimney flue; the smoke routed them both, coughing and wheezing. "Mama," reported Beverly when she got home, "I think I've met a man I finally can marry...
Sylvie Vartan's escape flue is already open. She is making a movie for 20th Century-Fox, an adaptation of Marcel Achard's Palate, with Jean Marais and Danielle Darrieux. The chances are that she will make it as an actress. And with her considerable grace and nicely mannered charm, there should be no doubt that she will be lending style to the women of the Champs-Elysèes for much time to come...
...competitive secret, some manufacturers are trying a modern variant of their grandfathers' way of curing tobacco. They used to let it dry in the air, stored it in hogsheads, in which it fermented; now, to cut losses from spoilage in storage, this method has largely been supplanted by flue-curing, or redrying, which pasteurizes the tobacco before storage and prevents fermentation. A Polish-born agricultural technologist, Jan Beffinger, recently reported that there is less lung cancer among smokers in Russia and Poland, where air-cured tobacco is treated with enzymes to control the fermentation...
...from clear last week that the Morrises will be allowed to keep the cash. The "finders keepers, losers weepers" rule of thumb dates back to a celebrated case in 1722 when a British court held that a chimney sweep could keep a jewel he had found in a sooty flue. But over the years, specific exceptions to the old saying have been spelled out in an effort to clarify conflicts over accidentally discovered loot. Though practices vary widely, the legal distinctions are based mainly on the way the article was lost and on where it was found...