Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done rode me down ... he done mowed me, and he done throwed me down. Ole Taxes Drainger, he sho' did slow me down. His pollatix is 'fulla trix-he herds us hix with bats and brix-Ole Sir Taxy Waxy-he sho' do make me burn...
...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...
...When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge with an iron hand. Her brother, Lord Raincliffe, who had a passion for circus clowns and fire engines, often came to stay, locked himself in his room for hours every day, conducting imaginary orchestras. A more humdrum guest was Florence Sitwell...
...gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that was in him was 3 ft. 6 in. Jumpers burn out young...
...songs are lacking in vitality with the exception of "Thou Swell" and "To Keep My Love Alive." In the latter, Vivienne Siegal sings 16 verses describing how she managed to burn, poison, guillotine, stab, electrocute, gas, and hang her various husbands in order "to keep my love alive...