Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women will be only too eager to get out and work for his election. Baseball, tennis, racing, boxing and all other sports are again drawing record crowds and Roosevelt is the answer." Thus last week did onetime fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, who thinks it is funny to burn unsuspecting friends through their shoes with a lighted cigar (see cut),* justify his appointment by Boss James A. Farley as New York State head of the Sports Division of the Democratic National Committee...
...They burn the grain in the furnace while men go hungry...
...hands of U.S. dealers. The understanding was that Philip Morris was Rube's and Mac's "baby" and, if dealers loved Rube and Mac, they would not cut prices. They did not cut, then or later. But Rube Ellis never lived to see his cigaret burn bright. Few months after it was launched, he dropped dead, and Philip Morris was left to Mac McKitterick...
...Cabinet, and Britain takes care that Cabinet secrets shall not leak out accidentally. Far from the least important official in Whitehall is a character known as the Confidential Waste Man. A trusted secret service employe, it is his duty to empty every Government trash-basket in Whitehall, burn the contents himself...
...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...