Word: blaze
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...they swooped over the College, brave and resplendent in the blaze of glory that gleams from all the toys of modern warfare, we heard a freshman say, "Well, it's the Air Service for mine in the next war." We wondered how many men craning their necks from other vantage points on the campus were saying the same thing. There is something unexorably alluring about an effective tool for war, whether it be a sword, a pistol, or a submarine. And once you've got the weapons, there is a well nigh uncontrollable desire to use them, as the world...
Miss Beatrice Lillie tittered, sang, and ended in a blaze of glory "On the Western Plains" a la Ruth Draper with a dash of Mary Wigman. At this juncture it was only the fire laws that kept the audience from rolling in the aisles. Her best scene, however, was one in which she represented the theatre-going difficulties of the dowager with a propensity for losing things and numerous clothing to dangle in the faces of her neighbors. It was button-bursting, blatant pantomime in the very best manner...
...placed in solitary confinement. There he hanged himself with his blanket that night. Another prisoner was placed in the same cell and warned that the dead face of the suicide would stare down on him. Next morning this man, James Maloney, admitted having supplied candles to start the blaze, denied knowing what they were to be used for. He will be indicted after the State of Ohio has dealt with Prisoners Grate and Gibbons...
...expedition surveying the proposed route of the Nicaraguan Inter-Ocean Canal (see p. 18). Arriving in Managua, he took charge of the Marines' fire-fighting detachments. There was no water, no fire apparatus. Dynamite was his only weapon. Marine squads blew up a ring of houses round the blaze, fought the creeping flames with spadefuls of earth and adobe dust...
...manuscript of the history, which he snatched up as he fled.* In seclusion at the Hotel de Savoie on Prinkipo Island, he issued a statement blaming the fire on an overheated stove, denying rumors that White Russians or adherents of the present Red Regime had set the blaze...