Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fire of 1871, as a mark of English sympathy by Her Majesty the Queen, Victoria." The Queen, helped by Tennyson, Carlyle, Disraeli and Gladstone, sent the books under the impression that the Fire had destroyed Chicago's public library. Actually, in 1871 there was no city library to burn but the citizens were shamed into founding one, in an old water tank which had survived the flames. First book to circulate was Author Thomas Hughes's presentation copy of Tom Brown's School Days...
...latest wonders of cinematography but to be entertained. That in this case both music, by Max Steiner, and color photography, by Cameraman W. Howard Greene and Color Designer Lansing C. Holden, are genuinely superb, will doubtless not suffice to interest 1936 in two young lovers who, with money to burn, can apparently find nothing better to do than brood about the life hereafter. If The Garden of Allah, best example of color photography the cinema has so far contrived, is a box-office hit, it will be because of its stars...
...when British soldiers were firing Washington, a group of invaders arrived before the Patent Office, ready to apply the torch. Out on the portico strode Superintendent William Thornton, puffing and glowering. Bellowed he: "This is the emporium of the arts and sciences of America. Don't burn it!" The British commander stared, saluted, led his troops away...
...that motorization and mechanization are here to stay. And, despite all the humanitarian pacts ever signed, we know that gas is going to be used on an unprecedented scale. You gentlemen are going to encounter two new types of casualties in increasing numbers, namely mustard gas and out-&-out burns. It should not be an uncommon occurrence to find mustard casualties soaring close to the 100% mark in the smaller units. . . . In addition to these mustard casualties it seems to me that we must expect and prepare for another type of burn. Today there is more than one indication that...
...fearful danger you are in. 'Tis a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit. . . that you are held over in the hand of God. . . You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have. . . nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath. . . nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment...