Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been taken by the United States many years ago, there is still hope that a world catastrophe may be avoided if only we step into the breach now. Great Britain tried to enforce sanctions on an Italy condemned by the League of Nations, and she had her fingers badly burnt, because the nations of the world did not have the moral courage or intelligent foresight to see that Britain's cause would ultimately be their's. It seems reasonably sure that no nation will again try to punish an agressor, unless the United States is prepared to lend...
...happy day dawned. Through the town of Matsue in Shimone prefecture swept a raging fire which burnt to ashes more than 400 houses, a hospital, a school, many business offices, deprived 1,500 of their homes. Korea, Japan's mainland dependency, was lashed by a storm which toppled 62 houses in the Keishonando district, lost eleven fishing boats near Fusan, bearing 70 fishermen. At Shingishu, Korea, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki...
...married Lucy Allard and went off to be one of Forrest's scouts. Lucy gradually learned what that meant, got almost used to the idea of his death. When the news came at last, it was hardly more than she had expected. The Allard place was plundered and burnt by the Yankees ; old Mr. Allard got a stroke from the shock. At war's end, with the slaves run away, the plantation ruined, stay-at-home Brother Jim brought discredit on the Allard name by swallowing his pride, keeping store...
...strings of electric lights were invested in by many householders. Taxi drivers contributed to the excitement by going on strike. In the crush of arriving guests were the Empire's No. 1 Mixed Couple: creamy onetime Mrs. Thomas Loel Guinness, formerly of the "British Beerage" and her present burnt-almond husband, the Prince Aly Shah Khan, son & heir of the famed Aga Khan...
...Priboy was a paymaster's steward on the Russian battleship Oryol, captured at Tsushima. To while away the long months of imprisonment in Japan he wrote down his eyewitness report of the battle, gathered enough material from fellow-eyewitnesses to fill a trunk. When these notes were all burnt in a riot, he set to and did the job a second time. Back in Russia after the war, Novikoff-Priboy became a known revolutionary, had to flee the country. He left his Tsushima notes with his brother, who hid them so well he forgot where he had put them...