Word: pined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room was on fire. Burning gas exploded and blew out the door, the flame rushed into other rooms. People staggered out of blazing doorways. Some were taken away in ambulances. One man died of his burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side of it with water. When the fire was over no one for a while could open the red-hot doors of the vaults in which "master" films were stored...
First problem was the courtroom's seating capacity. Solution: Carpenters banged and hammered, put up a six-tier bleacher, collected $417. Cross-pieces of white pine, at 16-inch intervals, marked off the benches into 86 numbered seats. Each prisoner had a number corresponding to his seat so that a roll could be called and absentees quickly detected. Lawyers for the defendants vainly objected to the cramped quarters of their charges...
Fritzi Scheff, prima donna, prospered but Husband von Bardeleben went into bankruptcy with his postcard & valentine business. Soon after came a divorce and Novelist John Fox Jr. (Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine) succeeded him, was in turn succeeded by her manager, George Anderson, who was divorced in 1920. Since then Fritzi Scheff's fortunes have varied too. Good comic operas have been scarce since the days of Victor Herbert. Tales of temperament have frightened some managers. She has been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn...
...Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin in his speech at the quadruple funeral. The service was held in a scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn-singing, which included this chant: We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, We are building a strong union, Workers in the mill. Chief preacher was Cicero Queens, a gnarled little old man from...
...then warriors with bows, spears, shields, others with gifts of jewels and robes for the Sun Goddess. Then came the Sacred Mirror herself, her tabernacle close curtained, borne on the shoulders of white-robed priests. Humbly at the tail of the procession, blinking in the acrid smoke of the pine torches, walked the Prime Minister of Japan and his Ministers...