Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawaii this year with the publicity of a visit, the Pan-Pacific Press Bureau, whose business it is to call that part of the world to public attention, uncorked a story which made news so hot that it caused the U. S. Departments of State and of Commerce to burn with embarrassment last week...
...prosaic $200,000 lawsuit. Carried away with the scene, the World-Telegram reported: "The courtroom was crowded with staidly gowned women and mustachioed old gentlemen. . . . On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan's cue line, spoken in the nursery, read: 'Dear night light, that protects my sleeping babes, burn clear and steadfast tonight.' . . . Today an attorney said: 'Miss Adams, will you take the stand, please...
First subjects of King George to burn Dictator Mussolini in effigy were 2,000 Capetowners, so passionately aroused that they tore the figure to pieces before it could be ignited as a whole last week, separately burned the bits amid catcalls...
...limited as to their dividends and must invest in Government bonds all undistributed profits; and the State assumes a virtual trade monopoly by decreeing that nonwar purchases are in every case subordinated to those fulfilling war needs. Before Dec. 31, 1937 all Italian motor vehicles must be converted to burn substitute fuels, such as coal gas distilled en route from charcoal by the Fiat system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that the price of gasoline had doubled to 87? per gal. Only cheerful sound from the Cabinet board was an announcement that "particularly abundant wheat...
...villains, Claude Claptrap, a popular demagog, and J. Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty. He has begun to market a remarkable new building material when Slugg and Claptrap rouse a mob to burn the factory and kill the inventor. That crime ruins the enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude, saying only, "Slugg's a crook but he's not important. What is important is that so many people can be fooled by a Claptrap...