Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumanian Carol's visit Czechoslovakian Prague was en fête. Triumphal arches had been erected in the main streets which were decorated with flags and evergreen. Prague's electric works reduced their rates by 35% to insure that the city's illuminations should blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes...
...this time the fire department had arrived and put out the blaze. A considerable crowd had also rallied around. A number of students helped as much...
Harvard students longing for a real fire and a chance to rescue people finally had their chance Saturday morning when a blaze gutted the third floor of a rooming house at 451/2 Mt. Auburn Street and threatened for a time to destroy the building...
Sympathy of the assembled onlookers was entirely on the side of the conflagration. No effort was expended to extinguish the blaze until the engines arrived, and even then the fire was exhorted in its hopeless ten-minute battle against torrential streams pumped from the Charles...
...fair example of this Elizabethan lust for life that is satisfied by Boston's Home Picture Newspaper, the following headlines called from two pages may be cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...