Word: pyre
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Thus Irun was a blazing pyre when the White forces took it last week and pressed on to seize swank San Sebastian. Their victory was reflected in Madrid by a complete upheaval of the Cabinet. Thus far sympathizers with Madrid had been able to claim that "not a single Socialist or Communist" sat in the Cabinet under President Manuel Azaña. Though the secret was long since out that this Cabinet was powerless, that Madrid was dominated by Red militia and "People's Tribunals'' similar to those which asserted themselves during the French Revolution, the fagade...
...trench, twelve feet long and six feet wide in good British soil at Carshalton, Surrey, workmen last week laid a ton of firewood and over that a wagonload of burnt oak and charcoal. This pyre was drenched with ten gallons of kerosene and ignited. When it had burned for eight hours and a wind had fanned the embers almost to white heat a scrawny young Hindu named Kuda Bux and a group of respectable-looking Britons appeared. Kuda Bux had promised that by faith he would walk barefooted across the glowing...
...first offering him a chance to resign, then ousting him by a vote of 14-10-0. Simultaneously Bob Sweitzer's doom was doubly sealed when local Democratic bigwigs meeting at the Morrison Hotel firmly decided to sacrifice one of their oldest and best votegetters on a pyre of his own I.O.U.'s to replace him with the publicly immaculate clerk of the Municipal Court...
...helps plot his death. And at the end she must become a goddess again. Though high passages are long and grueling, a few rare interpreters have made them seem incidental to Brünnhilde's grief, her realization of tragedy as she majestically orders Siegfried's funeral pyre and calls for her horse to ride into the flames...
...London cried out in a voice shaking with emotion: "I tell you, I would like to make a bonfire of these things, and dance around it." But not even the spectacle of the Rt. Rev. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram prancing in his gaiters and apron around a pyre of contraceptives could dissuade the Lords. The bill passed...