Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shame to those who will falter long before reaching the end of the novel; but lucky are the few in whom its appearance alone may fan to a momentary flame long-smoldering sparks once kindled by the man, Santayana...
...Government-inspired, General Niessel, late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...
...voice of Der Führer came out of six loudspeakers: "I hereby declare these Fourth Olympic Winter Games of the year 1936, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, open." In a steel bowl high up above the stadium on one side of the ski-jump, a pale spout of flame from...
Fourth ball in which the President had a special interest was that attended by his mother (in black), his daughter Anna (in flame) and his son James in white tie & tails. With 3,500 other Manhattanites they paid $5 a head to dine, dance and see a pageant at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Not only were the President's favorite tunes, The Yellow Rose of Texas, Anchors Aweigh, Home on the Range, played by special appointment to the White House, but the celebrants enjoyed the President's favorite food to the extent of 7,000 scrambled eggs. Crowning...
...across the Susquehanna River the six-car train had come to a broken rail, careened through the guard rail, spilled sideways across an abandoned canal bed, finally halted with the engine half submerged in the icy river. As the locomotive boiler exploded, the ties on the roadbed burst into flame from friction...