Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hagen speared the fear-proof Siegfried in the back, Brünnhilde lit his funeral pyre, the fateful ring went back to the Rhine whence it had come, Valhalla, symbol of the gods' greed, flamed in the distance-and at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House the curtain went down last Week on Richard Wagner's Goötterdäammerunmg, ended a cycle of the Nibelungen Ring operas* which New Yorkers will long remember...
...Suddenly Farmer Lentz heard a mighty roar. Running outside he discovered that his barn had been bombed, was afire. Before he and his hands could untangle the wire with which the bombers had sealed the door, Farmer Lentz's barn, three horses and 43 cows were a blazing pyre in the night. Two weeks before, the barns of two other dairymen, independents like Farmer Lentz, had been bombed near Joliet...
...boycott of Japan. Whites in Windsor, Ontario, were startled by 400 Canadian Chinese who staged a sort of Boston Tea Party. Piling up $6,000 worth of Japanese tea, silks and sea food, they poured on gasoline. Windsor's venerable Fong Lee, cackling defiance at Japan, fired the protest pyre. On the Pacific Coast, U. S. shipowners assumed with glee that Japanese shipping lines had canceled sailings to China, scrambled to get the business...
...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...
...hundred thousand Indians surrounded the funeral pyre of Martyr Motilal Nehru when it was presently set up at Allahabad, at the junction of the Jumna and the Holy River Ganges. The calm and temperate dead man's fiery and reckless son, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru, was present with Afflatus Gandhi when the pyre was lighted. "I said to him not long before he died," Gandhi told the multitude, " 'My dear friend, we will surely win home rule, if you survive this crisis.' "He replied, 'Why, you've already won home rule!' ': In the excitement...