Word: torch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout Western Java in the Netherlandic Indies concerted Communist revolts broke out last week, seemingly indicating that the Indonesian Communist Party is much stronger than Netherlanders had thought. In Batavia, a mob made wild a sultry night with shootings and torch-flamings. In lesser towns, murders of district-chiefs were reported...
...doing so, he studied homely characters, setting them into homely situations, for the amusement of audiences that generally failed to appreciate the unobtrusive irony of the whole. His real genius, then as now, lay in a faculty for etching characters with acidic dialogue. The Torch Bearers, The Show-off Craig's Wife, have established him as playwright-director, have also established Rosalie Stewart, first to appreciate his genius, as one of Broadway's successful producers. Now Daisy Mayme, probably the playwright's best effort, has settled down to a successful Kelly...
...sufficient interest in politics to march, in processions with red fire, horns, and other means of attracting public attention, all, supposedly, for the greater glory of the Eagle or the Star. In the past these parades have been things almost to be feared; the march was lit with red torch-flares and the marchers with hard cider or good Sandy McDonald supplied by the eager campaign managers, and the combination often went to the heads of the participants and led them to unlawful acts...
...university met, in Boston, a procession from M. I. T. Whether the two were in support of different candidates is not remembered, nor important, but the vanguards met and clashed in war, and soon the whole street was filled with a disorderly miss of rioters, belaboring each other with torches clubs, or whatever came to hand. Mounted police were sent for, and because of their elevated seats were able to wreak able to wrealy crest havoc among the students. Finally some torch beneath one of the horses, who reared and threw his rider. Other took up the scheme...
...active member of the faculty of the Grand Central Art School. His cousin, Maxim, is now in Venice, treating a cardiac ailment and working on another book of those stories which, kindled from Anton Pavlovich Tchekov's great bonfire, have made his name burn like a sombre torch' across the world. Arshele Gorky admits the relationship. He himself paints still life. In his first newspaper interview he talked good sense...