Word: flames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present. The perpetrator was not discovered...
Does the American journalist want America to win in a mad armaments race ? Fanning to a flame the unholy passions of millions in America against the peoples of two or three other large blocks of earth is one way to bring this about. . . . Does the American journalist want peace...
Suddenly a terrible vision swept across the Vagabond's imaginative mind. Sirens screamed. Great tongues of flame lapped at Peabody. Squads of firemen, regardless of personal risk or private property, ran in with axes. There were sickening sounds, and then the smoke-eaters appeared at the windows and threw out the cases. (Firemen can't be expected to understand about these things: lost of them are Democrats...
...whizzing belts past a buzzsaw. The buzz-saw nicks a groove in the shells of the nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...
...ranches of Leo Carrillo and the late Will Rogers had been evacuated. Actually, the buildings were almost all squatters' huts or beach houses. The Rogers' home was evacuated because Will Rogers Jr. and his brother Jim wanted to amuse themselves by putting out the nearest tongues of flame with a garden hose. Leo Carrillo's was evacuated because unlike less energetic movie folk who watched the flames from their porches, he preferred the excitement of riding close on his sleek white horse...