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...crew built a flimsy shelter with stones and a piece of fabric stripped from the plane. From clambering over the rocks in thin shoes, the children's feet were bruised and bleeding. New shoes were fashioned from life preserver covers. Soup and coffee were warmed over an alcohol flame. As the second night began the group split a quart of champagne which Mrs. Hutchinson had saved...
...driller had pierced an I. R. T. power conduit near City Hall, causing short circuits, fire, and a four-hour paralysis of one-half of Mr. Hedley's subway system. Two thousand passengers were led choking and gasping from dark stalled trains below ground. Smoke and bursts of flame shot up through exits and ventilators. In the excitement several women fainted, many a car window was smashed by hysterical passengers who could not get out quickly enough. Fourteen were injured. Rarely does a railroad or transit president get caught in a wreck on his own line as Mr. Hedley...
...half-bad Robert Frazer that they turn Madge into a zombie. After moral convulsions, Frazer gives Madge Bellamy a rose on which is a drop of potent magic. After the wedding ceremony, Bela Lugosi cuts a woman's figure out of a wax candle, then melts it in a flame. Madge crumples too, is buried. Frazer and Bela Lugosi disinter and install her in a craggy castle where vultures scream and Bela Lugosi is served by a group of stalking zombies, enemies whom he has devitalized by black magic, interred, disinterred and enslaved. With expressions of frozen agony, like figures...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...
...said at first that Thomas Bat'a's private plane had collided with a chimney of his plant, but when the mist cleared the chimney was seen to be unscarred. Some other cause produced the crash, the muffled explosion, the sudden burst of flame amid which died both Thomas Bat'a and an ace pilot who had flown him successfully around the whole of India...