Word: blazed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the Dutch Achilles, Captain Schoofs peeled off his burnt clothes, borrowed a uniform from the Dutch captain and was carried to Cherbourg where he briskly stepped ashore. "With extraordinary rapidity," he cried, "the electric wiring propagated the blaze! Fire broke out in several widely separated parts of the ship all at once...
While the organ groaned softly Rev. Wolfgang Schanze braced himself for the 21-gun salute which he knew would blaze away as soon as the bride and groom exchanged rings in the Coburg fashion. "Dearly beloved," cried Pastor Schanze, "the formation of a marriage which can stand before God and man is no light thing. . . . For you, dear bride, it means hoisting your sails-toward a new life...
...worth of food in the country, and his rifle or revolver was in working order, either of these oldtimers would have procured that food if he had to wade through blood to get it! . . ." Whether or not the offending article was sufficiently inflammatory to set off a blaze, its suppression gave Publisher Haldeman-Julius the chance to shout that the Government's real objection was to the paper's series of attacks on President Hoover. These included such thrice-told tales as those about Herbert Hoover "selling Chinese coolies into slavery" in South African mines; Herbert Hoover "swindling...
Withdrawn also last week was Shandon Farm's Burning Blaze, another winter-book Derby favorite who was lamed in a race at Louisville. "Sonny" Whitney had two other entrants left. His aunt had six eligibles. Her daughter-in-law Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney hired Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor to ride her entry Stepenfechit. Col. E. R. Bradley, who owns "Bradley's" (gambling casino) at Palm Beach and a racing stable at Lexington and who had predicted the downfall of Top Flight, still thought Mrs. Louise G. Kaufman's Tick On would be the horse to beat...
...looked at the cut in the March 21 issue of TIME I could hardly realize that he was the same Flagg who used to attract so much attention for his good looks, the Flagg with the straight, slender figure and the quiet manner touched with just a bit of blaze...