Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infantry had to attack the hard way. Two weeks ago doughboys crossed the moat and scaled the sides of the fort, then were driven back by the Germans. Last week they tried again. Infantrymen fought their way into the fort through phosphorus and smokebomb clouds, tried to burn out its occupants with blazing oil. The Americans, clinging to the top, could hear the Germans scurry through the tunnels below, but they noted no sag in the defense, which went on from lower levels...
While redemption-minded bondholders were rushing the banks, Frank Greene Dickinson, 45, economics professor at the University of Illinois, needled their consciences. He suggested that each individual buy enough bonds to cover his share of the $200,000,000,000 war debt (Dickinson's estimate).* Then everyone would burn these bonds in a gigantic "bondfire" next July 4, thereby wiping out the debt...
...Beyond a doubt, in wartime the writer will portray the Germans primarily as enemies who kill, burn and destroy our homes and our families. In some large, more permanent sense this may be sometimes unobjective. But this unobjectivity is far from clashing with the truth. Didn't the Germans burn our towns? Didn't they kill women and children? Didn't they hang and didn't they shoot? And is not the writer right who in wartime wants to write, and will write, primarily about this and only about this...
...contrasts. In Rome iridescent socialites decayed in amiable dolce far niente. In Florence amid hunger and ruins a mayor was installed with Renaissance pomp & pageantry (see cut). Italy was also a land going into a climactic winter for which it had not enough of anything. Romans used to burn 120,000 kilowatts daily; now they were getting 30,000, and even that was dependent on an uncertain coal supply. There were not even enough candles to give everybody more than one a month. The departing Germans had driven away in the busses and there was power to run street cars...
...married Miss Wright a proper interval ago, been confronted with a socialite father-in-law and his star-gazing wife (Patricia Collinge), who disapproved of smoking. With the help of a concealed cigaret-butt and some very funny writing by Nunnally Johnson, he had contrived to burn their house down and, not hearing from his estranged bride, a minor, had concluded that the marriage was annulled...