Word: blaze
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Third Assistant Engineer Arthur Stamper stuck manfully at his post below deck, later fought the blaze on deck for three hours. What did the radio officers...
...then his watch might have stopped during the night. At 1 a. m., said another passenger; at 1:10 a. m., said a third who saw people stamping out a wastepaper fire in the writing room. At 2:55 a. m., said a smoke-room steward who found a blaze in a writing room locker...
...Miss Cullen and her friends were bound to make a night of it. stay up and see the dawn over New York Harbor. They never saw it, for suddenly a cloud of smoke began to pour from the library. Some seamen were slopping buckets of water on a blaze. They told Miss Cullen and her friends: "Don't worry! It will be put out easy." Miss Cullen ran down to wake up her roommate and get a coat...
...Ramsey, N. J., when Jennie Quackenbush spurned his offer of marriage, Farmer William Storms pulled a $5 bill from his pocket, set fire to it. Then he went home, shot his three horses, set fire to his barn, tossed into the blaze life savings of $2,400 and the deed to his farm. Flames ignited his clothing, sent him dashing to a creek. Badly burned, he was dragged from the creek by a neighbor who started to drive him to a hospital. On the way they collided with a truck, wrecking the car. Next morning Farmer Storms died. Said Jennie...
...year absence, to find his betrothed wed to an old curmudgeon, to get himself hopelessly entangled with his best friend's fiancée. Luckily for all Jack Cade's rebellion puts a quietus on these amorous monkeyshines, and the story ends in a grand blaze of street-fighting, with London Bridge tottering on its old foundations...