Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a fire-engine lolloping home from a blaze, the Landon campaign special last week retired in leisurely fashion from New England whither it had gone for the Maine election (TIME, Sept. 21). First, motoring to Nashua, N. H. to board his train, Alf Landon stopped at the roadside to buy a 25? basket of apples, saying tactfully, "I have heard so much about your New England apples." Ignorantly he picked a basket of handsome Gravensteins thereby causing natives, who think their Mclntoshes tastier, to raise their eyebrows...
...Reds began with a frantic will, for meanwhile a White army under Generalissimo Francisco Franco had at last decisively taken Talavera de la Reina (see p. 19) and, advancing five miles per day, was within 25 miles of the Alcázar when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia started talking about...
...Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, who was aboard the chartered royal yacht Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...
...Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze, rushed out once more as a cyclone struck the building, wrecked...
...only the Academy's most pretentious art possession but also the largest single panel painted in the ancient egg tempera technique ever attempted in the U. S. Thirty-five dozen fresh eggs were mixed with oil to make a tough clinging varnish for the work. Depicted amid a blaze of banners and military pomp were the great battles of the past and their leaders...