Word: scorch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter remained uncharred. Then came Major van Rolleghem's finale. He stepped into a boxlike affair supposed to be a cockpit. Gasoline was sloshed against the front wall and ignited. The whirling propeller of a nearby airplane fanned the flames to terrific heat, but they failed to scorch the major...
Exhorting a Boston audience, Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday predicted his own early death, crying: "I'm running in high all the time! I scorch downhill! . . . I've got Napoleon [who slept only four hours per night] backed off the boards, hanging on the ropes!" Then he said he desired that after his death his body should rest in a Boston churchyard. He roared: "Boy, I like the folks back here! ... I told Mrs. Sunday not to bury me in the ground, not to cremate me. I want to be put in a sepulchre...