Word: flames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lily Dale and Chautaqua, back to the Genesee country, and through the Bristol Hills. It follows an aimless route in the Rochester-Geneseo-Buffalo area, through to the Binghamton-Ithaca "Storm Country", "Down the Bear Path Road" of Central New York, up North to the Adirondacks, "Land of Frozen Flame." Hit and miss Mr. Carmer picks up local anecdotes, Indian superstitions, regional customs, scenic wonders, as he goes. It is a peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories of rural raconteurs, rarely bothering with actual substantiation of what...
...marry the dance-hall girl. It takes a full generation for Barney Glasgow to count the gains and losses of this move. The final audit comes when, the richest man in the State, he discovers in the old Swede's daughter the image of his old flame. Barney showers benefits on the family. His efforts to renew his youth by making the young girl his mistress are frustrated by her romance with his son (Joel McCrea...
Purdue football teams' nickname ("Boilermakers") this year has grim associations. Last September, the flame from a locker-room hotwater boiler ignited gasoline spilled by players using it to loosen bandages, burned Purdue Footballers Carl Dahlbeck and Tom McGannon to death. In the Memorial Stadium at Minneapolis last week, the memorial planned by Purdue-a conference championship-was shattered by Minnesota...
...depicts the legend known as "The Twilight of the Gods". Here the final battle between Gods and Giants is taking place, with the Gods ranged on the left, armed with spears and halberds, facing the Giants on the right, who are fitted out with gas masks, cylinders and a flame thrower. Mr. Rubenstein is attempting to represent the attack of the Giants on Asgard, the home of the Gods, where such a great struggle took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack of Nazidom...
...their religious paintings. The visions of monsters assailing St. Anthony have nothing to do with the Renaissance. Neither have the radiant Resurrection of the Isenheim Altar, of which Stefan George wrote; nor the mystic Incarnation of the Altar, placed in a little Gothic chapel where "lines live and flame and quiver, figures twine and inter-wine, pillars shoot upward, arches swing, towers stretch and strive to heaven...