Word: flamingly
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...Streets of London in 1748 were as dark as country roads by midnight and much less safe. The winter darkness fell at four-thirty in the afternoon, and though the lamp-lighters went the rounds at six o'clock touching a flame to the open street lamps, in a very few hours what few lights the wind hadn't blown out were deliberately smothered by thugs...
...good solid English sex-problem piece, with mullioned windows and C. Aubrey Smith as a friend of the family, was obviously in order. This line of reasoning explains what would otherwise be the somewhat startling revival of Somerset Maugham's sardonic play The Sacred Flame, which has appeared twice in the cinema since its performance on the Manhattan stage...
Smoldering dissatisfaction at University Hall's attitude towards the commuter housing situation may burst into flame this afternoon when Phillips Brooks House's Cabinet meets in special session to decide the fate of the day-students in so far as Brooks House is concerned...
Elite British Black Shirts, Sir Oswald said, will be "something resembling the Schutzstaffel," Adolf Hitler's elite Special Guards. "They alone will be entitled to wear the black shirt," he continued. "It is they who dedicate themselves to preserving, the pure, immutable, fine flame of our original movement. They alone may wear badges denoting their degree of dedication...
...Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives to Lady Meed show that while he was "the Catholic Englishman par excellence, at once the most English of Catholic poets and the most Catholic of English poets: a man in whom Catholic faith and national feeling are fused in a single flame," he perceived a real threat to Christianity in the rapacity of his contemporaries...