Word: torch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regularity of the seasons, have one point in common. All are minutely tailored to suit her requirements. In this procedure, the weak point is that Shirley Temple's requirements have now outgrown the ingenuity of her purveyors. Her current summer issue, in doing justice to the Temple torch song and tap dance, neglects the Temple talent for emotional acting...
...leave the pit to him. When the door into the pilot room blew open, and the flames were reaching into the cabin, you came out and closed the door. . . . Again the door blew open, so terrific was the speed, and again you came out, this time a human torch...
...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...
...rising generation, carry on the torch of patriotism which the American Legion has borne so successfully in the past," he continued. "The recent passage of the Soldier's Bonus in Congress has proven that no longer is our government subject merely to individual selfish pressure but to just and rightful demands of deserving groups...
Marshal Field, Jr. '38, as Mrs. Hoopercliffe's daughter and David A. Barber '37 as the clean young man, supply the love interest. Assembled at the party is a somewhat representative assembly consisting of one foreign fortune hunter, a 'modern" poetess, a torch singer, and a disguised maid...