Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carter Hagerman '60, manager of the Band, said that there is "an outside chance for an engagement in a Southern city, but I doubt it." He said the reason for the abbreviated trip was not because of the financial loss from the October fire at the Band's headquarters, nor because of segregation troubles, a factor previously indicated as a hindrance to the Band's plans, but rather a lack of regular funds...
Crocks of Granite. In Detroit, while fire blazed in the kitchen of Frank Collins' Bar, while the building filled with smoke, while firemen dragged hoses through the barroom and water sloshed on the floor, seven steady customers refused to budge from their bar stools...
...conversation seems to wane. At that time the successful hostess will show her mettle, provided of course that she has stocked up on a variety of conversational cues. She can always start up a new buzz by casually reciting a line of poetry such as: I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than...
Your article last Monday, under the headline CATS CAUSE CONFLAGRATION IN COURTYARD, was interesting, and impressive as coverage of an early-morning fire. But since (as Mark Twain has pointed out) "one of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives," we feel it is important to clarify the two paragraphs which dealt with residents of Kirkland House and their Senior Tutor's cats...
...league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls. If the meanings are not always crisp and clear, the prose is. In his stories as in his novels (The Barkeep of Blemont, The Second Face) Author Ayme follows one rule: put all of life's ironies in the creative fire...