Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands and thousands of Arabs biting the dust. There's the character of the hard-as-nails Army sergeant this time a Russian in the French Foreign Legion, which gives Brian Donlevy a chance to turn in one of the best performances of his career. There's the funeral pyre and the garrison of corpses,--all the dramatic and vivid scenes which can be wrung out of Wren's story...
...best they could. While the Sokobin "good neighbor policy" was pursued by U. S. citizens, the white club-wielders dashed about Tsingtao in groups of five, cracking the crown of every yellow native they suspected of looting. Tsingtao by this time looked from a distance like one great smoking pyre of chaos, but after some 36 hours of club work, and before the Japanese conquerors arrived, cables reported the city "quiet...
...chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined detail of the Macon's last flight, from the rising siren to the final, gentle crash on the surface of the sea and the pyre of gasoline flames...
...curtain rises on Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Dusk of the Gods), three Norns are spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried is speared in the back, his half-divine wife follows him onto the pyre and all Valhalla collapses in flames. Because Götterdämmerung is the longest and most difficult opera in Wagner's Ring, it is sung more rarely than the others. People squeezed into every available inch of standing room one afternoon last week when Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Chinese engineer of the Hongkong-Canton Express kept it going full speed last week after fire broke out in the middle of the train. Three wooden rear cars burned down to their steel underframes and more than 100 Chinese passengers were roasted to death in the speeding pyre. Said the engineer when his train was finally stopped: "I didn't notice it had caught fire...