Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...household goods were carried to the land-limits and deposited by the side of the road. Another tenant took the goods under shelter, and the landowner gave notice that if they were not removed from his land, he would come in to the house and burn them...
...that they were playing into the peace-minded politicians' hands, dished up the scandal in a lurid pamphlet which declares photostats of the compromising document were made by a sergeant major of the reserve. Reputedly Army secret agents caught up with this sergeant last week, persuaded him to burn his photostats...
...that they were once the property of Lewis Carroll, and contain articles by Andrew Lang and Thomas Hughes, Cambridge's parody on "The Dark Blue," "The Light Green" is next. Its attitude is evident from the names of its "authora": "Alfred Pennysong, Bred Hard, Edward Leary. Algerman Charles Sin-Burn. Thomas Carr Lisle, the late Edgar Allan Toe, Rosina Christetti, and Louisa Caroline...
Philbert's mother finds him in the oven. (Caption: "So you stayed in there an' let the roast burn without tellin' Mamma!") Mamma makes Papa remove his suspenders in the street, to lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping...
...Rome by Charles V's troops. Wrote Villa, an invading Spaniard: "In Rome no Dells sound; no church is open; no mass is read. There are no Sundays and no holidays. The rich shops of the merchants are used as stables; the most beautiful palaces are devastated. Houses burn and the streets are heaps of manure. The stench of the corpses is dreadful, and in the churches I have seen dead bodies gnawed by dogs. Mercenaries are dicing for heaps of ducats in the streets. I can compare it to nothing that I know of except the destruction...