Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present phase of Revelations of a Wife is entitled "Love's Embers" and Mrs. White is planning yet another phase in which "the embers will be reblown into a faint flame." Mrs. White has no intentions of letting the story be snuffed out; in fact, she says: "The exigencies of this novel forbid that they ever shall become real ashes." How she creates these exigencies, day after day, year after year, has been a mystery to many an author. Her method is to introduce into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers...
Songster Grace Moore surpassed her predecessors in the quality of her message to other U. S. singers: "You CAN do it if you have talent, persistence, courage and the inward flame! First, have you God-given talent? If so, carry on beyond all obstacles! You must have the moral courage to face defeat smilingly, to keep your head up, your eyes straight to the front, and to shun the temptation of the primrose path. Carry on till you sing to 'His Glory,' till you can make a weary people forget the troubles of reality. And good luck...
...long can the candle of genius be hidden under a bushel; the recognizing world catches errant gleams that betray closeted flame, and cries out to know more of the modest great. This has, unfortunately not been true with the Reverend Paul Sterling, MeIrose clergyman who has just revealed himself as the prime mover in Boston's recent campaign of book censorship. In this instance Cinderella herself has been obliged to strike the hour of unmasking...
...them, to those who feel that their feet are caught in the Slough of Education, to those who feel within them the desire of the moth for the star, the story of Robert Lampoon will have a meaning all its own. Read then, all you in whom the flame of ambition is not yet suffocated, read the story of Lampoon, the Boy who became a Man overnight...
...against destruction, especially in dock or at anchor. The kind of thing that can happen to them when least expected happened last week aboard the aircraft carrier Langley, at her dock in San Diego, Calif. Other ships of war in the harbor heard an explosion, saw a sheet of flame. Smoke poured from a gaping hole in the Langley's side abaft her bridge. Three sailors who had been working in a launch slung from the Langley's davits, struggled in the water...