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Word: blazed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Midnight snackers in the Hayes-Bickford lunch last night were sent scurrying for shelter when an explosion in the kitchen rocked the building. Soon a fire developed, bringing a swarm of fire engines to the scene only to find a meagre blaze which was soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE DISTURBS NIGHT CALM ON MASS. AVENUE | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...bother to aim your guns because it won't do any good; just blaze away" was the order given to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, asserted Charles T. Haven in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAVEN EXPLAINS HOW BULLET WAS ANCESTOR OF CURVE BALL | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands out like a three-alarm fire in dim-lit, sleepy Coyoacán as floodlights blaze on the pastel blue walls. Trotsky's three secretaries carry pistols, practice target shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired Mrs. Trotsky goes about her housework packing a Webley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stalin's Mafia | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...told life story, biographers have enjoyed tracing her flair for the theatrical back to the Lowell, Mass, child who at four snipped off her younger sister Barbara's pretty curls; who at eight hated dolls, romped naked in snowdrifts; who at ten, terribly burned in a Christmas tree blaze, played blind for the exquisite drama of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

With Bubert on a scoring spree that netted 23 points, the Gold-coasters finished up in a blaze of glory yesterday afternoon as they ran rings around a Rambler quintet in a 43 to 9 victory and thereby annexed the intra-mural basketball championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

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