Word: flame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flame of Love. Since this Chinese spectacle of ancient silk weaving has been backed by a silk firm (Cheney Bros.), it might be expected that as drygoods it would be very beautiful. But the story has as much place in it as a bull in a china shop. It has less action than the bull. It saunters deliberately through the legendary romance of the silk-weaving championship of Canfu, when a youth who could spin the magic flame silk was nearly consumed in the 'blandishments of a temptress instigated by a wily rival. Save for some provocative muscle dances...
...story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...
...Peters. Platinum melts at a temperature of about 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit, but that does not begin to phase thorium oxide. Its melting point is probably over 6,000 degrees, which, of course, no thermometer can measure. It is used commercially in gas mantles. A gas flame does not affect it, but an electric arc may. The oxide does, however, shrink in volume at high temperatures. Thorium oxide has been utilized to make crucibles for holding molten platinum. The oxide itself was melted only in a hollow formed in a heap of its own powder...
Prophets, as Mr. Golding said last night, are notoriously sure of themselves, and the revolutionary rise of the labor party to office in England has given them an unusually attractive subject for dogmatic predictions. If the idea was ever held that by radical and unconstitutional policies Premier a destroying flame of conservatism it has for some months been ridiculous. But that the labor government will soon begin to weaken has been the general American opinion...
...Greek lamp of Monarchism, which has been burning with an ever sicklier flame, went out. The Kingdom of the Hellenes became the Republic of the Hellenes by will of a majority of the people...