Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal papers were in many cases not worth the paper they were printed on. Crucial material that might have proved useful to historians was missing. Gone, for example, were files of correspondence with Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Herbert Hoover, Chief Justice Earl Warren, House Speaker Sam Ray burn and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Some boxes were filled with nothing but newspaper clippings. Newman proved to be an accurate prophet when he once wrote about his profession: "I assure you that there isn't any dodge that some sharp mind in the Internal Revenue Service hasn...
Nationwide, electricity bills rose about 20% last year, and they may well go up as much or even more this year. The raises are most severe in areas where utilities burn imported oil. In Southern California, where power is generated by Indonesian, Venezuelan and Canadian oil, residential electricity bills have climbed by 50% since 1973. In New York City and vicinity, bills have risen a breathtaking 42% in the past year...
...Gedirey. Another William Powell picture, where at the beginning he plays a hobo and looks curiously like a late sixties movie hero, unshaven, gritty, and intense. But the burn gets adopted by a decadent wealthy family (one member is Carole Lombard), and Powell turns debonair again as the butler who reforms the family. Made in 1938 by Gregory La Cava. This, along with limitation of Life are showing Friday night (Godfrey at 9 p.m., the other at 7:30 and 11 p.m.) as part of the excellent Hollywood Film Series that's been going on at BU's Sherman Auditorium...
...that hangs in the East Room of the White House has been viewed with suitable awe by hundreds of thousands of guests and tourists. In 1814 the picture became part of the American legendry when it was removed by the doughty Dolley Madison just before the British arrived to burn the place down. What is more, the painting is by that greatest of American portraitists, Gilbert Stuart...
...into the respectable civil service. When Mishima was only four, his father thought that he would instill manliness in him by holding him as close as possible to a train speeding by; the child's face remained as impassive as a No mask. Later his father would burn Mishima's youthful writing efforts whenever he caught him at them...