Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more spectacular career. Shortly after beginning duty at Selfridge Field, Mich, in 1927 he landed a new-type pursuit plane which he was testing, got out, left the engine running. A brother officer took it up. Hardly had the ship gained altitude when it burst into flame. The officer died. A year later Lieut. Woodring flew with the First Pursuit Group on a goodwill tour of Canada. In a formation take-off his plane collided with another, killed its pilot. Shortly after he flew as one of the daring "Three Musketeers" of the Air Corps at Rockwell Field, Calif. First...
...made history, wrote books and created ideas were fully alive in their present. That is the teacher's function; to awaken and communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because the teachers have not enkindled it, and the students have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing of the cud take the place amongst them of the two ways men have of really understanding the world--science, which explores it, and sound wit, which estimates humanly the value...
Horror-struck amid a ghastly red-&-yellow glare, more than 200 Frenchmen stood on seven fiercely burning decks in the English Channel last week. The biggest liner ever to burn at sea, the 41,000-ton Atlantique, was belching to high heaven $18,000,000 worth of flame & smoke. Asphyxiated a few minutes after he sent her first and only S. O. S., the Atlantique's chief radio operator lay slumped against his smoldering instrument table...
...been sent out, this was picked up in the always crowded English Channel by the German freighter Ruhr, the English steamer Ford Castle and the Dutch Achilles all of which rushed to pick up the Atlantique's survivors as they leaped from her flame-swept decks. Cremated alive below decks were five members of the crew whose panic screams were all but drowned by the blast-furnace roar of the fire. Reputedly last to leap was Captain René Schoofs of the Atlantique. "Thrice we thought he was dead!" cried an excited junior officer later. "Then suddenly he appeared...
...ornaments. Price tags on every table called attention to Shirokiya's bargain day-the managers are proud of the fact that they were the first store in Japan to adopt the one price system, now employ 1,300 people. There was a short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled among the celluloid ornaments, then jumped to a counter piled with celluloid toys, which exploded. The building was fireproof, but its rotunda made an excellent chimney. From the third floor to the roof roared a mushroom of flame and smoke...