Word: flamingly
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...anti-foreign movement in China (TIME, July 6 et seq.) continued to smoulder. Only at Nanking did a flame burst forth. That was when a British subject was killed in a factory near that town. Vast volumes of smoke, in the shape of talk, gave tangible evidence that Chinese fires of hatred had in no way been extinguished in other places...
...general, the situation in China arising out of the anti-foreign riots (TIME, June 15 et seq.) neither improved nor grew worse. A state of high tension existed at Peking, Shanghai and Canton and the anti-foreign flame was fanned to remoter parts of the seaboard Provinces...
...gold stallion changed these women-the mother a little, the daughter much. Lou saw him in the mews where their own mounts were kept a horse of enormous power with dark, invisible flame coming out of him. In his wild jet eyes gleamed demoniac visions of an untamed animal time when there were no human lies about goodness, love, perfection, ideals. He was a celibate stallion and a mankiller. Lou found him a terrible deity who gazed questioning, threatening, untouchable out of another world, with ears like daggers on his naked head...
Demolition. There was a raveled place in the silk insulation around an electric wire in the Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré. On Mar. 29, 1922, the flame, thrusting through the wire, burned away the last strands of silk and began to crackle in a piece of dry wood. That wood was a crutch-stick, one of hundreds piled there together-some thick as fagots, the canes of maimed sailors; some the spindling, pathetic splinters that had propelled crippled children-left behind as testaments of those who, kneeling in the basilica, had been healed by the Holy Ghost...
Beyond this the college office cannot go, for the average undergraduate, both here and elsewhere, is an intellectual coward. Were it not for marks and cuts and classes, youth would flame unchecked and college men would live up to the novels written about them. The student's nose must be held to the grindstone, whether he likes it or not. He can scarcely hope for a freedom which he would only misuse...