Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it forced some 800 people to leave their homes, the blaze was confined to the 119-year-old Swift & Co. plant at 188 Gore St. It was the third major Easter fire in Cambridge in as many years...
...from the fire, thought by some observers to be the largest in recent Boston history, was visible for ten miles, and dense smoke clowds snarled traffic in Harvard Square. Gusts of winds carried giant-sized embers, some of which were deposited, still burning, more than a mile from the blaze...
What changed things was the Corpsmen's response to a fire that burned out a tenement three blocks north of ACT headquarters. The volunteers were on the scene shortly after the blaze began, bringing coffee and food for the firemen, first aid and clothing for those left homeless by the blaze. Later, the Corpsmen took up a collection of old clothing for the homeless; the contributions swamped the Corp's headquarters. The overflow had to be stored in a nearby armory where new contributions came in for days. Old women gave their favorite dresses; men on unemployment relief gave half...
...Charles Playhouse has begun a fund drive to repair losses resulting from a $100,000 fire Feb. 22. The blaze, started by a short circuit, damaged the lobby and box office, but the stage was saved by the theatre's sprinkler system...
...insert a choric ode? It is likewise complained that the external action of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde all but stops in the second act, and does stop in the third. Yet if one understands what is going on in Wagner's orchestra, Tristanfrom beginning to end is a blaze of emotional excitement; and if one understands what is going on in the orchestra ("dancing-place" of the Chorus) in the Agamemnon, the blaze of intellectual excitement is almost unbearable... As if Beethoven, a poet of comparable dimensions, had written three, or four, expository cadenzas stating the thematic content...