Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yago, Theophile Marzials, Selwyn Image- even the name of the 78 minor poets in this anthology of the obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have a special charm. The regiment of versifiers whom fame has fled is a fine...
Twenty minutes after the boat had scuffed out of her dock, a great flower of flame was growing through her decks, sprouting in the passageways, flourishing suddenly out of the port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail...
Tonight at Brattle Hall the spirit of the old West will flare up and flame again in the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production, "The Chisholm Trail." Hard-riding, six-gun toting cowmen will vie with invading homesteaders for the fertile grazing plains of Nebraska in 1886. The scenes of the play give a typical picture of life as it actually was among the plainsmen of Buffalo Bill...
...moments: in Butterfly and Bohéme, in which she has never been matched; in Romeo et Juliette, when she sang the chamber scene in bed, on her back; in Tosca, after she had lighted the candle coming from back stage, a burning white line from the tip of the flame to her beaded train; in Carmen and Zaza, less artistic, perhaps, just as exciting; in Die Königskinder, a radiant creature in rags with long golden hair and a golden crown with jagged peaks such as children cut from cardboard, and real live geese (her own innovation) flocking around...
...torch from Cleveland blazed at the national convention of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America in Manhattan last week. The rabbis there encouraged the flame with the breath of their warm agreement. No torch of Orthodox Judaism ought ever...