Word: torch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Torch Singer Helen Morgan returned from England, received interviewers aboard the S.S. Washington. Sighed she: "My gawd, the money...
...independent Democrats who were more interested in rescuing the city from its financial plight caused by the plunder of the Walker regime and the depression; a large body of voters of Italian origin; and the Republicans. There were two other entries in the field; Mayor O'Brien carried the torch for Tammany and tried to look comfortable in a top hat, but the Scabury investigations, the Walker abdication, and the forthright disavowal of their cause by Mr. Roosevelt as Governor had discredited his case. Mr. McKee, an independent Democrat, made up a strong personal ticket and clinched second place, while...
Bootjack McDaniels, a lanky Negro with powerful shoulders, was asked to confess first. He gibbered that he was innocent. A mobster stepped forward with a plumber's blow torch, lighted it. Another ripped McDaniels' shirt off. Again he refused to confess. Then the blue-white flame of the torch stabbed into his black chest. He screamed with agony. The torch was withdrawn. He reiterated his innocence. Again the torch was turned on him and the smell of burned flesh floated through the woods. Again he screamed, and when it was withdrawn this time he was ready to confess...
...Premier Leon Blum's 65th birthday, yeggs broke into the Paris office of the silk business run by his three brothers, blew the safe with an acetylene torch, stole...
...Suits passed a brilliant arc between two electrodes of a welding torch in an atmosphere of hydrogen. This was magnified and projected in color on a frosted glass screen. The engineers saw the images of the electrodes three inches apart, with the broad, vivid flow of the arc two inches wide. Then Dr. Suits produced an arc in an atmosphere of nitrogen. The arc band was pale, thin. But when he stepped up the nitrogen pressure to 1,200 Ib. per sq. in., the arc thickened and brightened until it was indistinguishable from that produced in hydrogen...