Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were a number of personages known to readers of sporting pages by familiar nicknames that lend themselves readily to the usages of headline writers. Each delegation carried the banner of its sport. At the high altar rail stood Baseball, and Boxing, and Horse Racing and the rest--and no fire came from heaven...
Great Britain's last coal strike was active from May until November, 1926. In it, many a head was bashed but few shots were fired. But at no time did police or soldiers line up and fire upon marching strikers. At no time did the strikers provoke organized police gunfire by stubborn demonstrations, armed or unarmed...
Came British Jail Superintendent Major Dhondy, pompous. Three times, in the name of the British Raj, he called on the revolted prisoners to surrender. Their reply was a tile, deftly hurled, which bruised painfully Jail Superintendent Major Dhondy. "Fire!" he commanded, and before the machine gun ceased to rattle, 16 prisoners had been wounded. Cowed, the desperate nose-nippers surrendered...
...Daily Mirror, whom Evangeline Adams warned against flying in the ill-fated Old Glory). Senators, high U. S. executives and business potentates, whose names she keeps secret, have sat facing her. Her outstanding predictions include the deaths of King Edward VII and Enrico Caruso, the Windsor Hotel of Manhattan fire (her first big one), the World War, the outcome of both Tunney-Dempsey fights. Because the stars pointed to great publicity, she advised the father of Lois Delander of Joliet, Ill., to send his daughter to the Atlantic City beauty contest. Miss Delander became Miss America...
Among things omitted from a policeman's handbook are: Instructions for appeasing a terrified Negro who is sprinting down the street with his clothes on fire. Lacking this data, Officer Rhodes of Manhattan did the next best thing: tackled 23-year-old Negro Edward Burnett, extinguished the flames with his own uniform overcoat. Negro Burnett, taken to the Harlem Hospital in a critical condition, said that he had been sleeping quietly on a doorstep until another Negro poured a pail of kerosene...