Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leviathan cleared from Cherbourg amid silence, a reminder that although France and Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
...clung stubbornly to his chairmanship. His friends implored him to resign for the party's good, which he vehemently refused to do. He kept far away from the White House, perhaps lest President Hoover see him, demand his resignation. In the Senate, Democrats primed their fowling pieces to blaze away at Mr. Huston when Muscle Shoals legislation, on which he had lobbied, came up there this week...
...Tower of London caught fire. Slight, the blaze was soon...
Plainly the pavements of Paris are hers to rent. In substance the Council announced that they can now be rented by anyone who will install certain approved types of lettering made with myriads of facets to reflect the sun by day, equipped with concealed lamps to blaze up from the pavements at night. Ordinary painted signs will not do. For they do not support the shrewd Council's alibi...
Fire, of undetermined origin, completely destroyed the Soldiers Field Locker Building early this morning. The three-alarm blaze, which commenced a few minutes before midnight, gained such a start that the three dozen odd pieces of apparatus and their complement of fire fighters were absolutely helpless to extinguish the flames. A crowd of upwards of 4,500, made up largely of students, watched hungry flames turn into belching smoke and a tangled mass of debris all of the medical equipment of the Athletic Association, trophies of generations of Harvard victories, over 300 complete football outfits, 100-odd baseball uniforms...