Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Military Affairs Committee, considering the nominations, was likely to ask the same question. Elliott was on their minds anyhow. Few days before his promotion was announced, the committee had decided to look into another matter-the priority which had been given by A.T.C. to Elliott's dog, Blaze...
...right, he said. It was a pedigreed English bull mastiff named Blaze Hero, one of two he had bought in England and taken to the U.S., in a war-weary B17. Before returning to duty, he had asked an A.T.C. friend to fly Blaze out to his wife, Cinemactress Faye Emerson, in Hollywood, if an empty plane happened to be going that way. That was all he knew about it. Was there a fuss...
...Most Regrettable." Eleanor Roosevelt, who had previously spoken well of Blaze ("a most noble-looking dog") in her syndicated column, said she was shocked. Presidential Secretary Steve Early averred that it was all "a most regrettable combination of errors." A.T.C.'s Major General Harold L. George promised an investigation. Dallas' well-named Bonehead Club tried and failed to airmail a St. Bernard back to the White House. Many a plain U.S. citizen, ears ringing with the week's officially urgent pleas for more manpower, less unnecessary travel, etc., sat down to write an angry letter...
...would probably never know the name of the A.T.C. man who gave Blaze his No. 1 priority. Apparently somebody at the White House-possibly tired of wasting good red ration stamps on the meat-eating animal-had asked A.T.C. to ship the dog to Hollywood. So Blaze automatically received the White House priority. General George, red-faced and harassed, swore it would never happen again...
Pouf! In Charlotte, N.C., a husky fireman, responding to a three-alarm blaze, found smoke pouring from a parked truck in midtown, raised the hood, saw flames around the carburetor, bent over, blew out the blaze...