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...JOURNEY OF THE FLAME- Antonio de Fierro Blanco-Houghton Mifflin...
...beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...
...went to the U. S. with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels (The Ardent Flame, The Golden Round, Pagan Interval...
...help of Ghost-Writer Lowell Thomas he has laid all his scraps end to end, called it a life. Born a Pennsylvania Hicksite Quaker 52 years ago, Smedley Butler is "still one in good standing, so far as I know." Sixteen when the Spanish-American War was fanned into flame, young Smedley was eager to enlist, threatened to run away unless his parents gave their permission. Anomalous Quakers, they complied, and as his father was a Congressman. Smedley started his martial career as a 2nd lieutenant. Once with the Marines in Cuba, his greenness soon seasoned into tougher timber...
...determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave Knop, mistress & child the company of four strangers in Death. That same night in Zubrohlava peasants were about to leave church when a thunderstorm came up, herded them back inside. Lightning struck the church steeple three times. The men stampeded over the women & children...