Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-bad Robert Frazer that they turn Madge into a zombie. After moral convulsions, Frazer gives Madge Bellamy a rose on which is a drop of potent magic. After the wedding ceremony, Bela Lugosi cuts a woman's figure out of a wax candle, then melts it in a flame. Madge crumples too, is buried. Frazer and Bela Lugosi disinter and install her in a craggy castle where vultures scream and Bela Lugosi is served by a group of stalking zombies, enemies whom he has devitalized by black magic, interred, disinterred and enslaved. With expressions of frozen agony, like figures...
...said at first that Thomas Bat'a's private plane had collided with a chimney of his plant, but when the mist cleared the chimney was seen to be unscarred. Some other cause produced the crash, the muffled explosion, the sudden burst of flame amid which died both Thomas Bat'a and an ace pilot who had flown him successfully around the whole of India...
...shrines throughout the Roman Catholic world, millions of silent, smoky candles burn out their brief lives. In sum they make a mighty flame of devotion. Singly, each is to some inarticulate worshipper a symbol of prayer, sacrifice, joy or sorrow. Compounded not of tears or smiles but of beeswax, tallow, paraffin, a candle is a concrete thing. It costs money. Traditional practice in Europe (and lately in some U. S. dioceses) is to set a box of candles by every shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned...
...candles in church is older than the church itself. Liturgical candles are traditionally of beeswax, for bees were once supposed to be virgin. The great paschal candle typifies Christ's flesh, its wick His soul, its flame the all-absorbing Divinity. On Candlemas Day (Feast of the Purification, Feb. 2) there is a special ceremony for blessing candles. A burning candle is placed in the hand of a person at baptism, and as Death comes...
Miltiades spends his money fast. "If I have money I think I ought to do beautiful things with it. He opens a department store, buys an estate. He proposes marriage to Drusilla Crowninshield. an old flame of his, marries her daughter Sydna instead. Drusilla knows him of old: "You really are an outrageous man. . . . You appear to people who don't know you as a most conventional man. but you really stick at nothing and regret little...