Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...subsequent events of the evening must have been even more heartening for, excited by a football rally, the undergraduates put on a display of Real Old Princeton Enthusiasm. About 1,500 of the student body started bonfires after the meeting, tossed some of their room fixtures on the blaze, then scoured the town for combustibles. The general disorder culminated in minor riot, with freshmen battling sophomores for the privilege of entering Renwick's, an icecream parlor forbidden them. Traffic was blocked on Nassau Street (Lincoln Highway), New York-Philadelphia busses were halted, rocked. And, as usual, the pious statue...
...roar. A halo of flame swelled through the raindrenched night. For an instant the watching peasants could discern the shine of the R-101'S length, could see her nose plunged into the wooded side of a low hill. There was a second, a third explosion, a titanic blaze...
Villagers running toward the scene encountered eight reeling hysterical men who had struggled from the ship's infernal interior (one of the eight died later). Visible in the control cabin were wild faces.? The blaze was too fierce to approach...
Primo Camera, gigantic Italian fisticuffer, heard a fire alarm ring near the Park Plaza, his Manhattan headquarters. All agog, he rushed to the street, discovered firemen putting out a small blaze in the Plaza annex, would not calm himself until he had used his great paws to help screw a fire-hose to a hydrant...
...placed in trust for 75 years; 2) In A. D. 2005 the accumulated principal is to be used to establish, equip and maintain a library on whose shelves will be no woman author, on whose catalogs will be no woman's name, over whose portal will blaze: "No Women Admitted"; 3) To his daughter went $5; 4) To his widow...