Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placed in solitary confinement. There he hanged himself with his blanket that night. Another prisoner was placed in the same cell and warned that the dead face of the suicide would stare down on him. Next morning this man, James Maloney, admitted having supplied candles to start the blaze, denied knowing what they were to be used for. He will be indicted after the State of Ohio has dealt with Prisoners Grate and Gibbons...
...expedition surveying the proposed route of the Nicaraguan Inter-Ocean Canal (see p. 18). Arriving in Managua, he took charge of the Marines' fire-fighting detachments. There was no water, no fire apparatus. Dynamite was his only weapon. Marine squads blew up a ring of houses round the blaze, fought the creeping flames with spadefuls of earth and adobe dust...
...House and Senate Bonus vote was a triumph for at least three individuals- Democratic Representative Wright Patman of Texas who started the prairie fire in Congress, National Commander Ralph O'Neil whose American Legion blew the blaze bigger, and Owen D. Young who deserted Big Business' fire-fighting squad...
Credulous Catholics paid $2,000,000 cash and obligated themselves for $1,000,000 more. The promoters acquired control of Sono-Art Productions Inc. Mary the Virgin was held up while Sono-Art produced Blaze O'Glory, The Rainbow Man (both featuring Eddie Dowling, a popular Catholic...
...manuscript of the history, which he snatched up as he fled.* In seclusion at the Hotel de Savoie on Prinkipo Island, he issued a statement blaming the fire on an overheated stove, denying rumors that White Russians or adherents of the present Red Regime had set the blaze...