Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burn will leave the mark tonight with Miller and the other short distance men. Whether Murchison will run or not was still doubtful late yesterday, according to B. A. A. officials. However, prominent among the field of luminaries besides Miller and Burns, are Clark, Intercollegiate champion while at Johns Hopkins, Morton, the Yale captain, who has once defeated Miller, and once been defeated by him; Bowman, the erstwhile Syracuse flash; Hussey, the Boston College Freshman who has been defeated twice by Miller in the past week, but who has gained international fame by his speedy spurts; perhaps Murchison, most brilliant...
Marty had a secret formula which disappeared. In the play she looks for it; finally it is found and rejected by a group of contented mortals, who burn it to ashy bits. The play is a mixture of mystery melodrama and philosophy, neither of which seems to fulfill itself fully...
...third and last act Brunnhilde comes to her sister Valkyries closely pursued by Wotan who must punish her for treason. Sieglinde is saved by the Valkyries but Wotan causes eternal magical flames to burn around Brunnhilde who is cast out of Valhalla. The flames are to protect until a warrier, strong enough to overpower them, shall come to marry...
Peter is growing old. His lust for knowledge, conquest, women, has waned. He catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...
...Apothecary: Burn this one's insides out with cyanide of mercury and oblige...