Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like Whisky." The big pipe, now delivering more than 100 million cu. ft. of gas a day, has already lighted a flame under the Northwest's economy. Utility companies have spent $20 million to convert to natural gas, and will lay out another $100 million by 1961. Consumers are expected to buy $100 million worth of new gas appliances. Washington Natural Gas Co. estimates its revenues will double...
...began in show business by combining sex and spectacle at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. His show was called the Flame Dance. A girl dressed in gauzy wings, representing a moth, danced closer and closer to a huge candle until she caught fire and ran off apparently naked. Says Todd: "I burned up four girls before I got it." It was a hit. After that there were other hits, other flops, but almost all had either sex or spectacle or both. He did The Hot Mikado ("The only show I ever produced that I liked"), Star and Garter...
...suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with a Galahad-pure flame of romance. Ashe chucks everything to pursue "the most beautiful woman in the world...
Throbs in the Headlines. With that to go on, Britain's newsmen soon pieced together the whole tale. Philip Ross and Kathleen Ryall had been childhood friends. Ross, newly in love with his old flame and desperate at the thought of losing her again, had faked his death and joined Mrs. Ryall. Moving first to London and then to a house in the country (which bore, by the sheerest chance, the motto: "To live happily, let us live hidden"), Mr. and ' Mrs. Sydney Davies-as they called themselves-had lived happily thereafter on Mrs. Ryall's money...
...keeps getting in the way. She's like me, you might say." Collaring a local United Pressman, she crowed for quotation: "They're not hiding too much of me. Just enough so people can hear the dialogue." However, Jayne reserved her most intimate confidence-about her current flame, protein-packed Mickey ("Mr. Universe") Har-gitay-for Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Mickey has a 52-inch chest expansion and I measure over 40 inches-and we both have short arms. All this makes dancing difficult...