Word: flame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Dr. Joseph Charles of Haiti: "Fraternity! Luminous entity which comes out of the flame and the heat, may you enlighten this august assembly . . . so that the structure of the future should never take the form of tombs...
...course on New England, commencing, in the flame of the autumn leaves, with an excursion to Walden where "the morning wind forever blows; the poem of creation is uninterrupted...
...fast for a long time," says David S. Biddle '49, of his handsome 1932 Cord convertible, "the rear floorboards burst in to flame...
...H.M.S. Flame, 18-gun brig, lies hove to near the French coast. "Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs," splutters the First Lord of the Admiralty, nursing his gout in Whitehall. Flame's crew have just sent word to London that they are tired of floggings and bad food. Unless their demands are met, they will desert to Napoleon...
...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...