Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listen: I have saved the sweetest part of my letter to the last. Your ears ought to burn today! One of my countrymen, Professor Pease, speaks about you this afternoon. Are you not glad? Will it not please you, dear Cicero, to hear about yourself: Your letters; your philosophy; your orations--even your private life? Fear not, in this latter matter the professor will be discreet. But how is Publilia? I shall be waiting to meet...
...years Negroes in the South have with impunity poured kerosene into their stoves to make wood fires burn brighter. The 22 "bad niggers" were not particularly alarmed when the rivulets on the truck floor took fire from the burning paper. But this was not kerosene but gasoline. A lacework of flames raced across the truck floor. Several men stamped their feet in the burning trickles. Then suddenly the five-gallon can went up in flames. Twenty-two "bad niggers" rushed to the front of the truck, began to holler...
...heavier because of the salt content, no different in appearance. It takes varnish well. The Board's testers created conflagration conditions in large chambers fired by gas nozzles, watched through windows. Under conditions that sent untreated walls and floors roaring up in flames, the treated wood did not burn at all. When exposed to intense heat for long periods, the processed oak and maple charred deeply, but did not produce appreciable flame or aid the spread of combustion. The Board's final verdict: "Practically noncombustible and non-flammable...
...honest Cincinnatians freed their city from boss rule by voting a new city charter, entrusting municipal affairs to a nine-man council which elected one of its number mayor and chose a city manager. Only the dreamiest idealists expect an aroused citizenry to burn with reforming zeal all year round. But, as successive city campaigns have shown, Cincinnati's voters are not very excited about their reform government even on election day. Last November the City Charter Committee (reform) Administration again excited the admiration of less fortunate U. S. communities by floating $2,000,000 worth of long-term...
...felony. Reason: de Clifford is a disciple of British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, the only foreign Fascist whose portrait hangs in Rome at Fascist Party headquarters. Like the good Fascist he is, Lord de Clifford bought himself some time ago an Italian supercharged Lancia in which to burn up the road between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head on and killed Douglas George Hopkins, the sporting secretary of the Frazer-Nash Car Club, who was driving with his sister Sheila and her friend Rosemary Reynolds. A constable verified from...