Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terror of the Boise Basin's greatest natural disaster was added a new. worse terror: pyromaniacs. Behind a fire-fighting crew Leaped a fresh, incendiary blaze, nearly trapping the crew. Other fires broke out. Governor C. Ben Ross proclaimed a state of insurrection, despatched national guardsmen to the region. Forty-five "undesirables" were ejected. Next day three counties were under martial law, all civil functions at a standstill while 6,000 men fought the flames, prayed for rain to help them do what they could not do alone...
Once before, in 1929, Photographer Hillig tried to go home in a blaze of glory and bought passage on the Graf Zeppelin. But somebody blundered and at the last moment Mr. Hillig found himself left out. He made quite a fuss about it, sought a writ to prevent the Graf from sailing with- out him, finally sued for $100,000. The case was settled out of court, and no announcement made. But Mr. Hillig allowed his friends to believe that he collected $25,000, a sum which he later spent in having the Bellanca built. A different story is told...
...ning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius out of lightest, strongest materials, was just Cruiser...
...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...