Word: burn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller was reputed to have observed that the hands of the clock on his mantelpiece had stopped going round. Mr. Miller pulled out his watch so that he might set the stopped clock. In doing so he pulled out $120 which fell to the hearth and began to burn. Mr. Miller dropped his clock key thereby breaking his clock spring in his haste to get water to extinguish his burning money. When he got the water and poured it on the fire, the steam which arose scalded Mr. Miller's child. Mr. Miller's money was completely burnt...
...Silent House. The Chinese are a ghoulish people if one is to believe mystery playwrights. They gleefully eviscerate the noblest hero and burn the baby's eyeballs with a chuckle. An untruthful tribe as well, they are only exceeded in creating lies and tortures by the strange race of men who make up plays of mystery. Strive as one must to minimize their truthless horrors, one cannot escape, herein at least, their power...
Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg. A year ago, he murdered two policemen. When they tried him for this crime, he sneered at the judge. Said "Red" Moran: "I want to burn in the chair." The judge said he could have his wish...
...tear up two phone books at once for a little afternoon exercise. Asked why he had run away from home, he answered. "I wanted to meet Buffalo Bill. All German boys read about Buffalo Bill. He gave me confidence when all my teachers said I would be a burn. So I sold my pet rabbits, changed my name, and started for Hamburg. I sailed on a Russian ship, thinking I would reach American. I landed in Australia and found that the world is round...
Sadie Holland, a stenographer and 30, had bow legs and a burn-scarred shoulder...