Word: stove
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...life story of the illiterate Irish gal (Tammy Grimes) from Hannibal, Mo. who went forth into the world with a stout heart and flying fists to kayo success. She married a miner (Harve Presnell) who doted on her and, when he struck it rich, hid $300,000 in a stove, where it was burned to a crisp. When he struck it richer, she carted him to Denver, got mauled trying to crash society, and carted him to Europe. He in time went back to Leadville and his saloon pals; she in time survived the Titanic ; and the two of them...
...Solar Stove. A 14-lb. aluminum-coated steel disk that cooks by focusing the rays of the sun on its grill has been developed by Los Angeles' American Landscape Products, Inc. The 32-in. reflector gathers enough heat to grill a steak in twelve minutes, boil water in two minutes. Price...
...family at the age of 21. After years as an itinerant student, he began to write a series of plays which his contemporaries were hardly aware of but were praised by later critics. One of the plays was burned by Goethe, who threw the manuscript into his stove because of its "damnable perversity." In all of Von Kleist's work he saw "a body well planned by nature, tainted with an incurable disease." Whatever the taint was, it was fatal. Von Kleist, whose own letters almost certainly prove that he was a homosexual, had a weakness for death pacts...
...they can go at the least expense. On the average, a camper's vacation only costs $40 for two weeks in the sun. One Frankfurt camper spent ten days in Italy. He brought along gas for his motor scooter, canned food, which he cooked over a portable stove with German canned heat, a tent, blankets, and other necessities for independent outdoor living. Cost of his trip: nothing. Said he: "The only thing I took from Italy was water from the public fountains...
...Poblet last week was one of winter's cold, cold joys. In rooms where the temperature averaged about 40° F., they devoted almost all their labors to the printing of books in Latin, Castilian and Catalan. Their printing equipment was up to the minute, but the only stove stood glowing in the doorkeeper's lodge. To that lodge came now and again a flint-faced, intensely devout blacksmith from the neighboring hamlet of Espluga de Francoli...