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...exodus, had left one of the trap doors of the incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
...members of the Norfolk (Va.) Philatelic Society met, last fortnight, in a blaze of indignation. Beneath their very noses a local dealer was flaunting a sheet of 200 Mother's Day stamps, unperforated, ungummed, and autographed by James Aloysius Farley. Rumor was that the dealer had insured his $6 worth of stamps for $20,000. The philatelists drafted a hot letter accusing the Postmaster General of slipping his friends sheets of unperforated commemorative stamps which promptly "assumed speculative value 10,000 times greater than their original value." Then they dispatched the letter to a famed fellow stamp-collector...
...most critics Stravinsky was most inspired during the four Paris years that followed. His Firebird was a blaze of color, marvelously decorative in every detail. Year later came Petroitchka, with Nijinsky enacting the poor sawdust puppet who briefly had a soul. In that exuberant work woodwinds ran riot and to many they seemed altogether tuneless...
...campaign material: news of the great Paraguayan victories on the northern front. Since he had assured his countrymen again & again that Fort Ballivian was "impregnable," he ordered his generals to take most of their troops out of Ballivian and run a rousing counteroffensive in the north. In a blaze of Bolivian victories last month, Salamanca's candidate for President, Franz Tamayo, was elected...
Amid wild huzzas from the mob, and to the booming of firecrackers set off by wags within Leverett House, the fire laddies attacked the blaze, battled it furiously for thirty seconds, and soon had it under control...