Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stormy autumn night three years ago French peasants near the cathedral town of Beauvais stared in terror at a huge rain-drenched silver mass that lurched over their heads and into a nearby hillside. They heard three thunderous explosions, saw a gigantic blinding blaze. It was the end of Britain's ill-fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William...
Harvard and Yale ended their respective and respectable track season on Saturday in a blaze of mixed glory, by defeating a redoubtable Oxford and Cambridge outfit. So meagre was the American margin of victory that the sum of the meet was in the nature of an upset, an upset for the expectation of the press which backed the home team to win things easily on Soldier's Field. For it was only in the last two events that the strong English invasion was turned back, and a deadlock achieved in the number of first places scored, six for each side...
...last week in the person of Bernard Mannes Baruch, his great & good friend. The tall, smiling Jew with the fine thoughtful head, arrived in Washington just as he had done almost every week for the past 20 years. But this arrival set official Washington by the ears. Amid a blaze of unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy at the London Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after...
...into the heart of New York society. Clarissa's mother joined Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to the North Pole, conducted an equivocal expedition into the interior. As for Clarissa, she joined the flea circus, made a trip to Washington on Premier Laval, died, in a blaze of typically Fiskean capital letters, when "She tried to come between two HAPPY LOVERS...
...stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free...