Word: blazed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hotel. They ordered the bartender to lie down on the floor, keep his mouth shut. Passing down a narrow hall, the pair came to a rear dining room where three other men were seated around a table under an orange light. The two intruders jerked out revolvers, began to blaze away. The door of an adjoining toilet inched open. The gunmen sent one shot through it, turned, ran. The man in the toilet staggered out, made his way up the hall...
...first acts of reconstruction was the Croton Aqueduct, financed by the sale of lottery tickets. Even after the Aqueduct was finished, fire-fighting remained in the hands of private companies whose rivalries frequently threatened the city, since partisans of one company or another would seize the hydrant near a blaze, prevent its use until friends arrived. Such colorful items of dubious historical importance Henry Collins Brown includes in a volume on Victorian New York, succeeds in writing an amusing if somewhat musty book characterized by an old-fashioned respect for old-fashioned things...
...long ago, a curious European wearing deerskin moccasins was reported to have followed the native performers across the fire-pit. His moccasins were not singed. In Manhattan last week Joseph Dunninger of the Universal Council for Psychic Research said that fire-walking may be made comfortable by lighting the blaze first along the centre line of the pit; by the time the edges have reached maximum heat, the centre line, along which the performer walks, has begun to cool. In an expose of Oriental magic, Professional Magician John Mulholland declared that the trick is done either by stepping on fast...
Henley regatta was held in a blaze of sunshine again this year. It is the finest function of the year to those who know it, although it does not rank with Ascot and Cowes in the debutantes programme. Cambridge crews were victorious in three events, and Cambridge blazers everywhere in evidence on the bank. The Diamond sculls, held by a German, have gone to Switzerland now. The rowing world hopes it will be able to welcome an American crew next year to the regatta. But the rowing is only a part of Henley; there are meetings of old rowing...
...drag out the month-old story of George V's Jubilee, nearly every illustrated magazine in England continued to blaze last week with reproductions of the King's possessions. There were pictures of his horses, racing, hunters and parade, his Clumber hunting spaniels, his late mother's Labradors, his wife's collection of old Chinese jade, his Empire stamp collection, his great houses of Sandringham, Buckingham, Balmoral and, 500 years older than the others, Windsor. To the King's treasures at Windsor, the Connoisseur gave nearly an entire issue...