Word: burn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the stay at Falmouth the men of the company will live in a yacht, the "Brae Burn," at anchorage in the harbor, and the women will occupy a cottage at Woods Hole...
...shoddy shoes she hated, the unmatching coat and trousers that she detested, the vests she abhorred and the hats she longed to burn--all these will soon be gone. Though Harvard be ungallant as a whole, there lives still a certain saving quality that may yet redeem many sartorial barbarisms...
...anybody touch your book except yourself. If you find any one impertinent enough to venture, burn his foreword and drop him into the dustbin...
...news that Wu Pei-fu had actually become a bonze brought forth in the Peking press a grim description of his initiation: 1) The hour chosen was midnight, at which time the whole assembly of the monastery knelt in its Temple; 2) The crux of the ceremony was to burn deep into the shaved head of Wu Pei-fu nine brands, each the width of a man's thumb, and serving to remind him of his nine vows as a Buddhist priest; 3) The branding was made endurable by covering his scalp (except on the spots to be branded...
...over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...