Word: fire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Graduate Club has recently secured a building in New Haven which will be used as a club house. The building consists of two stories. On the ground floor are parlors and reading rooms and a lounging room in the rear, containing a large open fire-place. On the second floor are rooms which will be rented to members of the club...
...native legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told with Homeric simplicity. A deep fatalism broods over the poem, but it is counteracted by a certain manliness. The poem was composed almost wholly by one man and with one definite aim in view...
...thirds of the subscriptions for the fire-proof building to hold the photographic places at the observatory have been collected...
Miss White sang as a second number an Aria from Graun's "Der Tod Jesu." Her rendering was always intelligent and sympathetic The Aria has little of the fire work element about it and therefore to sing it well is to put one's soul into it, not so much being required, perhaps, in the way of mere execution. Throughout, the enunciation was remarkably clear and this is one of the best features of the soloist's work...
There was a slight fire last night in Gray's, due to the Igniting of fumigating sulphur...