Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peer skyward. He saw an arrow of dense smoke headed straight for his house. He screamed. Father Megia ran out, was bowled over by a powerful down-thrust of air. Mother Megia ran out, dragging a mattress. Jose Megia smelled sulphur, heard one sharp detonation, saw his home burn up. Patiently the Megia family sat down on the mattress...
...Wrestling Bradford the dream was so real that when Indians set fire to his church and Marigold was sentenced to burn as a witch he dashed into the flames with her. To many a member of the Metropolitan audience the dream was as unreal with its slinky dancers and baskets of fruit as a Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone...
...Junior Varsity hockey team will meet Brac Burn at 8.30 o'clock in Newton...
...subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste is, to be sure, that of liquid fire; but it does not have burn of straight alcohol; there is an aroma, a purging afterglow, and a solid, settled feeling which delves down to the soles of one's feet, which lets it be known that this is the drink of rugged individualism. There is something of the mountains of its birth in this Leadville Moon...
...Charter group because he could not get a $2 parking ticket "fixed." Mr. Taft also warns that local good-government movements should beware of tangling up with State or national politics, as the Charter people learned to their cost. His biggest point is that civic reformers must not only burn with zeal on election day but all year round...