Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newton (Mass.) Club members today relate to skeptical listeners how their President Weeks canceled the club's $30,000 bonded debt by persuading the members to burn their bonds. They do not tell how later the anecdote was offered to Uncle Joe Cannon as recommendation for Congressman Weeks' candidacy for the Naval Affairs Committee. "My God," said Uncle Joe, "We'll put him on the Banking and Currency. That man with those methods will soon wipe out the national debt." Mr. Weeks alone possessed the honor of having one of his big appropriation bills...
...about the great days of the silver rush at Virginia City; of how he had drunk and gambled away his takings; about how his partner, Billy Clark, had been more sensible, saved his metal, gone into politics, retired as one of the country's wealthiest men with money to burn "down East" on rich living, art and suchlike...
...Suggested to the composer by the act of one Isidoro Alvarez, owner of a dance hall near Toledo, Spain, who poured gasoline over the piano owned by a rival dance-hall keeper, set it afire, caused the whole building to burn to the ground, was arrested, jailed...
...bicycle race, C. A. Reed of Columbia, a former wizard on the wheel, will burn the cinders once more from a precarious height. Reed captured the bicycle title in 1881 and in 1883 and came back for second place...
...These people can no longer be called cvilized, but they do preserve certain relics of the old culture by still going through the outward manifestations of its religion. For instance they slit their ears with stone knives, worship idols, and burn incense in censers which are exactly the same as those unearthed in the ruins of the Ancient Mayan cities...