Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your article on schoolmarm Campbell's one-room Iowa school brings back many, fond memories. I spent the first eight years of my schooling in just such an institution including the black stove in the centre of the room. Such an educational beginning has always seemed to me to be adequate, providing one is a consistent and thorough reader of TIME...
...White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President's taste...
...garage. They had a baby girl, and things were all right until 1931. Then Ben lost his job, looked in vain for another. Another baby was born, a boy this time. On relief, 42-year-old Ben drew $11.40 a week. Their house had no heat except the kitchen stove. "Wasn't fit for animals," observed Pearl wearily. "Every time it rained it rained right into the house." She made what she could from odd jobs. Ben salvaged junk, pawned his coat and whatever else they could do without...
Lawyer Alexander figured the project was an investment which would give the Masons 6% on their money. To Pearl it was a place where it wouldn't rain right in on Negroes huddled around a kitchen stove. They named it Frances Plaza, after their daughter. But Pearl was convinced that God, not Frances, really picked the ticket...
Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...