Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success second only to an appointment to the Shanghai branch. On the day before the appointment is to be announced he resigns his position, feeling that he is not to get the coveted appointment. Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers of nerve control are represented by figures at sets of levers much like those in a railroad switching tower. One normal voice speaks the words that the husband has spoken aloud during...
...brain scene ends and the play continues conventionally up to the inevitable amorous scene between the husband and his old flame. Once again there is a flashback to the cerebral. With no subtlety at all the action of the brain during a complete seduction is described...
...Sacred Flame. A young man, crippled, paralyzed and impotent as a result of an airplane crash during the War, worships his wife for five years from a wheelchair. He knows he is doomed to be an invalid for life; his only happiness is seeing his beautiful wife and believing that she remains faithful, to him. In the sixth year, the young man dies in the night. His nurse bluntly informs the family that he was murdered (with an overdose of a sleeping drug). There are three possible murderers: his wife, his brother, his mother...
...passage through the orbit of the Leonids. Their orbit is a vast ellipsis swinging beyond even Jupiter, and along its path race hunks of stone, iron and other minerals. When those pieces strike the Earth's atmosphere friction makes them terrifically hot. They burn with an intense blue flame. Some burn up entirely, some plunge into Earth's earth or seas, adding their mite to Earth's size and power among the astral bodies...
...rocket car. Inventor Valier, Builder Sanders, tried it secretly last April over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil Car." U. S. women wrote lengthy, passionate letters.* Last week, the German automobile...