Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good many old Princeton boys around about here, and we naturally feel deeply grieved at the humorous Dr. Holmes insinuating that Princeton had been girdled around by Styx until Harvard enlightened her, and that Harvard had set fire to Calvinism and was burning it up in a blaze of truth...
Till every watch ower shows its kindling blaze...
...unvarying accompaniment to extreme gratification? The truth is that all these puerilities gain their only attraction when under prohibition. There is some exhilaration in being chased from an inceptive conflagration by an officious proctor; but there is nothing so mournful as to split one's lungs in starting a blaze which no one cares to prevent, in setting off cannon-crackers alone and unobserved, or in blowing long and loudly on a tin horn merely for one's own recreation. We would remind the Yale faculty as well as our own august body, (whose action on this subject has been...
...Hades to recover his brother's soul, and finds Proserpina there on the same errand; Pluto falls in love with Proserpina and refuses to let her return to earth; the difficulty of providing a bridal trousseau is solved by the property manager, and the play ends in a blaze of red fire and a wild dance of demons, and condemned souls. Following is the cast: Romulus, (red,) Remus, (blue,) L. Anderson, L. Honore; Pluto, W. H. Rand, Jr.; Charon, R. A. Lawrence; Proserpina, W. B. de Billier; Mother Ceres, H. M. Clarke, Jr.; leading shepherdesses, L. M. Keasbey, W. Abbott...
...alarm from box 54, Memorial Hall, at 8.40 last evening emptied the dormitories inside of two minutes. The fire proved to be in the old barn which stands near the Physical Laboratory. It made a very pretty blaze...