Word: burn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brand-new star to rise in Broadway's 1936-37 musicomedy firmament was judged by most observers to be of the second magnitude. In terms of a college musical show, the libretto wrestles with the story of a nation-wide search for a girl with a waffle-iron burn on her fundament. She has been lost since 1918, approximately the year in which Messrs. Lindsay's & Grouse's puns, concerning souls and heels and counterfeiters who forge ahead, lost their bloom. Also second-best in the opinion of most listeners is the score Cole Porter has composed...
...Nails" Duquesne, a rough female diamond who thinks that a man with two wives is committing bigotry, Ethel Merman lifts a brazen voice, rolls a comic eye. Roly-poly Bob Hope (Roberta} is coyly engaging as the young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior decorator, sings a song called "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet...
With ardent young Welsh folk singing native songs outside the courtroom at Carnarvon last week, three Welsh Nationalists stood in the dock charged with malicious destruction of King Edward's property. Did or did not a Welsh pastor, a Welsh author and a Welsh schoolmaster burn buildings of the British Royal Air Force bombing school near Pwllheli (pronounced "pool-thélly"), Wales, thereby causing $10,000 damage...
...peaceful trend, Manila's Mayor Juan Posadas, plump and proud possessor of the title of "Comendador de la Real Orden de Isabel la Católica" conferred upon him by Spain, paid no attention whatever last week when he received an anonymous letter warning him that Manila would burn the following night. The police went to bed and slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb wrecked part...
Some months ago WPA took cognizance of the subterranean inferno, not only because of the damage done but also in view of the job possibilities of a fire-control project. Mining engineers were convinced that the fire could be confined within its present limits, there to burn itself out eventually, by laying down massive barricades of non-inflammable material. WPA officials made plans to provide a year's work to 300 men, spend $360,000 of which New Straitsville would contribute some...