Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast Millers, led by Billy Arnold, 1930 winner, 1931 leader until his Miller-Hartz crashed and burnt, led for the first laps. Arnold crashed again at 150 mi. after setting five new records. At 200 mi. only one of the standard cars, high rated for stamina, was among the first ten. In the last half they came up, finished third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line...
...stories seem to me competent and workmanlike. Robert Hatch's "The Lord's Annointed" takes us into the Burnt Over Counties of Upper New York sometime in the revivalistic nineteenth century; there are several seemingly authentic notes of the frontier scene, although the romantic elopement of the lovers, calling to my mind, for no apparent reason, the fleeing lovers of Keats' "St. Agnes Eve", somewhat vitiates the realistic elements...
Reporters leaped for their hats, photographers jumped for their cameras, Artist Zdzislaw Czermanski was routed from his hotel room. A fleet of honking taxis bore down on 57th Street. Reporters reached the galleries just as the grey-haired Polish politico-pianist departed in a pale blue swirl of burnt gasoline. The perspiring assemblage was left to admire the pictures...
...Peekskill, N. Y., planning to paint his house, William P. Nabal borrowed a blowtorch to remove old paint. Absorbed in the operation of the blowtorch, William P. Nabal burnt off paint, clapboards, wall, house and all, returned the borrowed blowtorch...
...November contest between Democrat White and Republican Ingalls is expected to be nip & tuck. Nominee Ingalls may fall to earth trying to carry Ohio for the Hoover Administration. If he does, his friends assure him he .will not be a burnt offering on the altar of the national ticket. His friends assure him he is young enough to take a beating without ruining his political career. Besides, he had nowhere else to go but into the Ohio gubernatorial race. By his energy he had worked himself out of his Washington job, having brought the Navy's five-year...