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...Russian Guns. "The Brigade advanced with beautiful precision. Lord Cardigan riding alone at their head . . . [in] the gorgeous uniform of the 9 Hussars . . . Instead of wearing his gold-laced pelisse dangling from his shoulders, he had put it on as a coat, and his figure . . . was outlined in a blaze of gold...
...still lives, paid no attention. They greeted their fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions. As the Premier stood on a balcony to address his old neighbors, a blaze of electric lights spelled out the message: "Viva Scelba...
...explosion broke the stillness of a mid-Pacific morning on Nov. 1, 1952; at 7:15 a.m., observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab. As the cloud cooled, it began to billow outward...
Command Decision. In Central Valley, Calif., when a fire alarm interrupted the crowning of the queen at the annual Firemen's Ball, Chief Earl Stevens dispatched all his men to quell the blaze, stayed on himself to complete the coronation...
...drums go bang and the cymbals clang And the top brass blaze away, McCarthy plays the big baboon And Stevens jades away. The country's in hysterics, Such tunes were never heard. Molotov sits in the grandstand And applauds the discordant play...