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...with the fields of East or West Texas or central Louisiana calling for supply houses at Fort Worth, Tulsa, Corpus Christi, with the thousands of flares burning the escaping gas, hissing as they burn, lighting up the derricks and stretching out under the wind like yellowish acetylene pennants of flame...
...Stubborn" Starzynski, as all Poles were calling him, stank last week the corpses of men and horses rotting in almost every street of Europe's fifth largest capital. More than 500 separate fires were blazing in Warsaw, covering the city with a choking lid of smoke and flame. The reservoirs were blasted and dry, the power plants smashed, and Nazi bombers, after destroying the Jewish Home for Crippled Children, had methodically blown to bloody smithereens all Warsaw hospitals, crammed with wounded...
...Millay has published 14 books of verse that have in one way or another kept her title intact. Though she has shown an increasing disillusionment with the world, the world has refused to be disillusioned with her. She can say that life, which she once felt was a flame, is really a frost, and be thanked for the pains of saying...
...Roosevelt's first steps would have to be taken along secret diplomatic channels. He would have to ascertain in advance that there is some common ground for a settlement. Should either side by any chance or for any reason refuse his offer, hatreds in Europe and America would flame only the more hotly...
When the University of Wisconsin lured chubby, Kansas-born John Steuart Curry to lecture farm boys on painting, art rivalry among U. S. colleges began to burn with a hard, gemlike flame. Other up-&-coming schools promptly hired their own resident artists, not to teach art but to talk it, to paint while undergraduates gaped and to give an occasional steer to hopeful dedicates. To the University of Georgia went Native Son Lamar Dodd. Dartmouth called home its own Paul Sample. Muralist Thomas Benton spurned all Missouri compromises during four stormy years teaching and painting at Kansas City...