Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miscellany, is, according to Voltaire, like the fire on our hearth; we fetch it at our neighbor's we light it at home, we hand it on to others, and it belongs to everyone. "Harvard et la France", is in itself proof of the persistence and intensity of this flame. It is not only a fitting testimonial of respect from Joan Sorbon to John Harvard, but a substantial contribution to cultural history...
...used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply to the right, crashed in a gush of flame. When rescuers arrived, "the bodies were already burned beyond recognition...
...inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds of Red air bombs. Just before the final White assault last week, the Red Militia touched off six more tons of dynamite, but this too was such a clumsy job that Alcázar Cadets in the last desperate struggle made a rush from their fortress...
...Morale is a hard thing to define," he said. "You have all probably had the experience of being on some crew or team which beat a superior opponent simply by virtue of better spirit. We can only light the spark and hope to see it burst into flame...
...Madrid Cabinet in a frenzy of frustration took another "terrible decision." This was to order to Toledo thousands of gallons of gasoline, to be squirted by means of fire engines into Spain's West Point, and, by setting it alight, flood the Alcázar with searing flame until the last cadet, woman and child and the two babies born during the siege were burned out in Spain's most savage and futile farce...