Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixth-you make the further statement to the effect" that "The lights at 'Shady Oaks,' the comfortable country place on Lake Worth where Publisher Carter & wife do much of their entertaining, generally burn far into the night'' and that he never serves beer because he dislikes it, "but there is always abundance of Texas corn and Scotch, his favorite drinks, which he usually takes neat." This statement is not only slanderous and false, but that you should introduce Mrs. Carter's name into such an atmosphere is proof enough that a gentleman is needed...
...Jubilee. On Armistice Eve the Irish Republican Army and the Laborites paraded and tiraded through Dublin streets to College Green. There they poured kerosene on two Union Jacks, brandished the blazing banners until only charred staves remained. Leaders howled at the crowd, "Destroy every poppy in Dublin tomorrow and burn every Union Jack and every emblem of British imperialism." They excoriated President Eamon de Valera for not having made it a crime to fly the British flag in Dublin on Armistice...
...reputable Hitlerite witnesses who have duly sworn that Herren Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, and Popoff were six places at once on the night of the incendiarism. Quite the most ingenious charge to date was made yesterday by a good brownshirt who asserted that Torgler had tried to get him to burn the building "so that suspicion would be placed on the Nazis." The strategical brilliance of this move would have escaped any but a Nazi. CASTOR...
...fell often under foot as the mob dragged him along. He was dead before they strung him up to an oak tree in sight of Judge Duer's house. Some mobsters tried to set fire to what few rags remained on the corpse. There was not enough to burn, so the body was dragged back to the court house, soused with gasoline and lighted. "Here's what we do on the Eastern Shore!" the crowd chanted. Several hours later, troopers put what was left of George Armwood on a truck...
...lights at "Shady Oaks," the comfortable country place on Lake Worth where Publisher Carter & wife do much of their entertaining, generally burn far into the night. The tall, lusty host never serves beer because he dislikes it, but there is always an abundance of Texas corn and Scotch, his favorite drinks, which he usually takes neat. Here the Farley party, joined by Funnyman Will Rogers, was welcomed...