Word: blazingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long lay's travel by camel in the icy gale of the desert plateau, when Jayne, Mr. Warner's companion "slid from his kneeling camel and fell fiat. He could not walk a step. I stretched him on the snow with his back to the blaze and took off his fur boots to find both feet frozen stiff," What this meant, in the midst of the howling desert, at that time of the year, with little food and less fuel and no medical attention is hard to imagine. But the laconic narrative proceeds, with the reader's breath bated, until...
Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France: "Rustic neighbors of my country estate at Cocherel saw my summer crop of wheat and oats burst mysteriously into flame one midnight last week. Summoned in haste the local fire department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents...
...Meanwhile," concludes the Christian Century's correspondent, "the fundamentals convention, albeit walking a little lame, pursued its militant way and wound up in a blaze of defiant glory...
...eagles in cages, chained raccoons, doleful bobcats leashed to posts on the lawns of Western hotels; for dancing bears, monkeys leashed to street organs; for imprisoned hawks, falcons, caracals and creatures robbed of their swiftness; for leopards padding up and down in cages and lions whose pale eyes blaze till death with longing for the forests they have left behind forever-many persons feel pity, but few utter their pity. John Galsworthy, now visiting the U.S., has pitied many social animals. Last week he enunciated (from a Manhattan radio station) his views on the caging of wild ones...
...night clubs, where she is toasted as Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...