Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dora is really very pretty; so pretty and innocent that it's a pity to cast her pathetic story in cold lead. But it's all for her good and anyway today is her birthday. Isn't that right, Dora? No, you mustn't touch the candles. They burn. Burn! Don't you understand? It hurts...
...crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy in one of these nervous moments exclaimed to Manhattan Lawyer William Ormonde Thompson, onetime partner of Clarence Darrow: "Damn those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down their Oxford!" Lawyer Thompson, duly brought to London from New York last week, declared under oath in the witness box that Dr. Hanfstaengl spoke exactly as quoted. What had wrought Putzy up to speak in this fashion, Mr. Thompson testified, was a reference to the condemnation of Nazi methods...
...Dora Boegler, 79, for a sanity hearing. When Ablino Oley, 14, called her 91-year-old husband Jake a hunchback a year ago, Mrs. Boegler wrote Mrs. Oley, "Tonight I will pray to God to cause your boy to suffer great agony. I'll ask God to burn him with fever and lay the hand of death upon him." Ablino died. When Mrs. Will Ray cut off the Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned Mrs. Ray that...
Fish on the Steeple is laid in a little town, 60 miles west of Nashville, that has 14 street lights, four churches, a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, a large number of local drug addicts, bootleggers, bad girls, small-town eccentrics. Every few years its inhabitants burn down part of the town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete...
...There is not much danger of fire in the building. There are sprinklers in all the hallways, no central heating plant. and the floors have no danger, of collapsing because they are supported by large beams which would burn very slowly...