Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of ropes, back-drops and shirt-sleeved stage hands while the star of the hour explained her aversion for poodles. Or that the night before he had jumped up on the stage at the Arena after Aimee Semple MacPherson has wound up her tirade in a blaze of glory, to "get" her for an interview. If she refused he would have had to chase her cab to the hotel and then worm his way into her presence...
...fire in Room P-22. While the bewildered occupants stood by helplessly, two quick-thinking members of the Yard police, Messrs. Grady and McNamara, seized the smouldering piece of furniture and hurled the mattress out of the window. As soon as it reached the ground, the mattress started to blaze, and after several buckets of water had failed to quench the flames, the day was saved by the appearance of the janitor with a fire extinguisher. The damage was pronounced negligible...
...flames amid a thunder of exploding bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...
...blaze was of obscure origin. At 8.50, three details of firemen from the Brattle St. station, arrived at the door of Dunster F-44 to find the study a haze of smoke. With smarting eyes, their leader discerned the cause of the smoke; a sofa in the far corner was oxidizing rapidly, crackling like a good log fire on a winter's night. A consultation was held; the sofa was tossed from the window. And, as the inhabitants of Dunster jeered, the firemen danced their weird tribal dance around the blazing pyre...
...Zodiac," a memorial service for the late Astrologist Evangeline Adams. As the congregation sang a hymn, Dr. Guthrie lit a Eucharistic candle. His surplice sleeve brushed against a row of lighted candles, flared up. The congregation stopped singing, resumed again as Dr. Guthrie, with little help, slapped out the blaze with his hand...