Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929) was written, much of it, while S. J. Perelman, who had graduated from Brown University in 1925, was working for the now Judge. It had an abundant, frenzied incandescence that promised either 1) to burn out, or 2) to become as brilliant and sure and destructive as anything in U. S. satire. Perelman did not burn out, but he has cooled off. Having become a money-earning professional, he collaborated on a novel (Parlor, Bedlam & Bath) and a play (All Good Americans); gagged the best of the Marx Brothers' films; with his wife...
...Burn out the ticks...
...late 18th Century, when U. S. whiskey taxes came into effect, distillers began the custom of watering liquor. To test alcoholic content, buyers would sprinkle the whiskey over gunpowder, try to light it. If the alcohol content was high enough, the water low enough, the powder would burn. That was "proof." In the U. S. today, proof is double the alcohol content...
...Strategic materials to burn. The Allies controlled about one-quarter of the world's copper, more than half its rubber, about 40% of its tin, one-third its zinc, practically all its nickel...
...WIVES TO BURN and MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman -Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two excellent novelettes about death, India, a ship afire at sea. For the Somerset Maugham trade...