Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the Long Island waters were as familiar to him as had been his nursery floor, the young Naval Reserve officer didn't see Fire Island-but Block Island, R. I. (TIME...
...Texas went aground on Block Island, and not on Fire Island...
...political power of much of the daily American press may be overexaggerated. Admitting the influence of a few crusading editors in the large cities and of a few local demagogues, it is doubtful if the average voter is swayed by his breakfasttable reading more than by red fire and hard cider. Constructive editorial opinion and advice on polities, at least those of national import, is offered by a minority of printed sheets. Dissection of a candidate or of an issue is left largely to the weekly magazines...
...this ribald and entertaining, albeit disrespectful opus Ernest Boyd sets out to fire the whiskers of several highly respected lit'ry gents of the classic English school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where...
...audience bombarded with Menckenistic fire and fury and accustomed to tolerate the mental acrobatics of contemporary critics like the famous "Bossy" Gillis. Professor Babbitt's warning might sound archaic and his advice Hellenic. Others might recognize its significance and debate its practicality. However, no one will deny that Professor Babbitt's penetrating mind has grasped the essential weaknesses of contemporary life...