Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller dropped his clock key thereby breaking his clock spring in his haste to get water to extinguish his burning money. When he got the water and poured it on the fire, the steam which arose scalded Mr. Miller's child. Mr. Miller's money was completely burnt...
...still dare so to style themselves, have excused the slaughter of millions on Malthusian grounds of reasoning; but not even the most heartless science can acquit humanity of guilt in the destruction of its noblest attainments. And still the nations, without even the wisdom of a burnt child, rush to heap ever higher their piles of weapons, that they know must inevitably, unless some power can stop the insane contest, fall upon them and bury them once more...
...know," he said, settling himself in his chair, "I live in Greenwich. Connecticut. Well, about two years ago, my own house burnt down, and I had it rebuilt. I moved in with my family though before the workmen were through and well, the play is just a dramatization of my summer vacation. And then, lots of the other things, the Junior Dance and so forth that I mention in the play they actually do have them in Greenwich...
...foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost wholly by a company colored without burnt cork...
...meantime, there is nought but a sordid hole in the sidewalk with a row of vesper lanterns being burnt as an offering to the soul of the departed and, as Bob remarked, looking at the upturned cage with its iron spikes, "to save the boys pants from being torn on Saturday nights...