Word: fired
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Congregationalism, the author, for all his story tells, might belong to either sect. Mr. Joseph Husband's "The Summons" is a more conventional theme, better written. If not experienced, then it took an exceptional imagination to phrase to the senses so vividly a succession of impressions of a fire. One wonders, at first, how the other two stories got by. Except for a hint of love on the page, any young man's fancy would indeed be far turned before he could read into either of them the slightest serious likeness; and they are nothing if not serious...
...engineering building at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, was destroyed by fire yesterday at a loss of over $750,000. It contained several collections which can never be replaced, and was said to be the best equipped building of its kind in North America...
...small fire started in the Observatory, on Garden street, yesterday afternoon, about 6 o'clock. The fire began in the residence part of the Observatory, and catching on the woodwork, spread rapidly. Before the fire department arrived, however, it had been parctically smothered by fire-extinguishers. None of the valuable instruments of the Observatory were injured, nor was the damage extensive. The loss has been estimated at not more than...
...whom a poem might occur, as did the 'Arrow and the Song,' while he stood before the fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite...
Among the best known of Mr. Smith's books are "Caleb West," "The Fortunes of Oliver Horn" and "The Wood Fire...