Word: blaze
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fire swept through the swank Princeton Campus Club late Saturday night, causing $60,000 worth of damage, but no injuries. Starting at 2 a.m. after a formal dance following the Princeton-Dartmouth game, the blaze completely burned out the third floor dormitory space and destroyed the personal belongings of 23 girls who were staying there. Firemen finally got the flames under control after three hours...
...side of the building and started up. Then thick smoke and flame burst out of the windows below the woman. It drove the man off the ladder and enveloped her. She sank to the ledge and lay still. She was dead when firemen arrived, 30 minutes after the blaze had begun...
...week ago James Michael Curley's Campaign Headquarters, the Hotel Brunswick, was a blaze of flags, posters, and retouched photographs. But when we visited the hotel last Thursday to find out how sincere Curley's campaign withdrawal was, nothing remained but tattered stickers peeling off the windows. It seemed as if the "Governor," as his party workers call him, was really pulling out of the election race...
Song of the River. His funeral took place almost within sight of the house where he was born and of the daily on which he pyramided an empire. He was buried last week as he liked to live, in a blaze of regal pomp. The governor was there, the mayor, notables of publishing, screen, stage and public affairs. A movie-studio publicist shepherded the press. Flashbulbs blinked, newsreel cameras whirred. Somewhere in the crowd of 1,500, a woman fainted...
...City, Mo. The flaming tank drifted into more gasoline and oil storage tanks. Flames shot up 500 feet into the air as the tanks exploded. Flaming oil and gasoline raced on top of the flood, while firemen in boats vainly poured flood water back on to the fire. The blaze, fed by more than one million gallons of oil, demolished seven square blocks. The Star called it "Kansas City's most disastrous...