Word: alight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cadets and Commandant José Moscardó as the Madrid Cabinet in a frenzy of frustration took another "terrible decision." This was to order to Toledo thousands of gallons of gasoline, to be squirted by means of fire engines into Spain's West Point, and, by setting it alight, flood the Alcázar with searing flame until the last cadet, woman and child and the two babies born during the siege were burned out in Spain's most savage and futile farce...
...royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain of the King's Flight. It took the machine exactly 14 minutes to fly the English Channel. At an obscure French air field near Calais vacationing Edward VIII became "the first King of England ever to alight from the air on foreign soil...
...arrival in London was 3 p. m. but somehow the train got there 15 minutes ahead of schedule. In the royal salon car as it drew into King's Cross Station a painful dilemma was in course. Gently the King urged Queen Mary and the Duchesses to alight at once and set out by limousine for Westminster Hall close by the Abbey, where George V was to lie in state. The Queen in her grief felt that she should not leave the railway station until the gun carriage bearing George V had rolled away. Assenting, the King then proposed...
...organization was a small group of nine young players who wanted her advice last autumn for a radio program. Their talent impressed her. She visualized a big ladies' band that would be known as the New York Woman's Symphony Orchestra. With her dark eyes alight she went out on a hunt for more musicians, marched on the White House where she persuaded the President's wife to head her list of sponsors...
Oldest department store in New York is Hearn's, founded in 1827 by an immigrant descendant of an English divine. In the 1870's many a rich old lady in coach and four clattered over the cobblestones of 14th Street to alight at Hearn's for a camel's hair shawl at $10,000 or laces at $1,000 a yd. For 105 years the store was managed by the Hearn family whose youngest executive, Donald Hearn Cowl, kept a yacht as late as 1931 and raced every Saturday with Junius Morgan. But in 1932 Hearn's, crippled by Depression...