Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casual and candid remark into an inflammatory "attack," and the torch had been taken up by Jewish leaders who are usually responsible, by some who are usually not, and by comedians like Eddie Cantor (TIME, Jan. 14). Even the New York Times had tossed some faggots on the blaze. Its off-the-cuff editorial judgment of General Morgan's remarks: "It was an insult to six million tortured dead." Walter Winchell, who writes for the Hearst press, said it louder: "Morgan must not only be fired, he must be repudiated by His Majesty's, Government and stripped...
...yield to such a demand would mean the end of free enterprise. . . . General Motors does not propose voluntarily to blaze a trail in this direction. If our system ... is to be abandoned, it must be by act of Congress...
...Philadelphia plant of the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co., greying, husky Eugene Beuttel and his partner, Samuel Daniels, worked at a long assembly line. On it, fins for 500-lb. bombs moved slowly along. As they moved, Beuttel and Daniels welded the fins, in an electric blue blaze of light. Suddenly the line stopped moving. A foreman's voice shouted an order...
Elliott Roosevelt's famed Apriority bull mastiff, Blaze, 125 lbs., won a bloody encounter with 20-lb. Fala on the lawn at) Hyde Park. He lost to Malvina Thompson, Eleanor Roosevelt's companion-secretary. When Blaze charged in a surprise attack, plucky Miss Thompson snatched the Scottie into her, arms. Blaze leaped. He got 1) Fala, 2) Miss Thompson (on the left index finger). Blaze tried to finish Fala. Miss Thompson conked Blaze with a rock. Fala went to the vet for a patching-up, Blaze (by Elliott's order) went to the vet to be destroyed...
...Spanish Main (RKO Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...