Word: flaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, spoke one day last week M. Maurice Bokanowski, Minister of Commerce and Aviation, director of the Postal Service. A few minutes later he stepped into an airplane which rose unsteadily to an altitude of 300 feet. Suddenly a sheet of flame shot from the motor. The plane crashed down in flames. Two hours later M. Bokanowski's body was extricated from the twisted steel...
...calm evening; everyone was apparently in the best of humor; no accident occurred to mar their merriment until when they had proceeded for about a mile the motor began to backfire. Father Dubuc leaned down to see what was wrong. There was a sharp detonation and a sheet of flame from the exploding gasoline tank...
...flame of deep religious passion enkindle your souls, as this alone can maintain a high tradition for the Olympic Games and realize their sublime ideal."-Baron Pierre De Coubertin, at the opening of the IXth Olympiad in Amsterdam, Holland, last week. It was he who was chiefly responsible for the revival of modern Olympiades in 1896. "Once again it's America against the world."-Typical statement in U. S. newspapers. And so the IXth Olympiad opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck...
William B. Leeds, tin-plate tycoon, hopped into his $75,000 speedboat, Fan Tail, with famed Actress Adele Astaire (Funny Face). Giving the crank a swift turn, he caused the gasoline seepage to burst into a fan of flame. The actress, her dress ablaze, fell to the floor. Leeds grabbed her, lugged her to the dock; then he pushed the Fan Tail into the harbor where it soon exploded and sank. On the; dock watching this performance was Mrs. William B. Leeds, onetime Princess Xenia of Greece, and Fred Astaire, brother to Adele. With their help, William B. Leeds, though...
Climbing into his little car he touched off a rocket. There was a ten-foot spurt of flame, a burst of yellow smoke, a loud report and the car whizzed away down the track. Within two seconds it was going 100 kilometres per hour (62.1 m. p. h.). Then there came fresh bursts of flame, smoke, and noise as Herr von Opel exploded more rockets. At each explosion the car lunged ahead in a fresh spurt. Its speed mounted to 125 m. p. h. When his rockets were all gone, Herr von Opel coasted to a standstill...