Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baby then, just a pianist. At six he was composing; at 19 he was a conductor and his neighbors forgave him, went way to Halle to hear him lead the opera there. He took his training in one German opera house after another, washed himself in Wagnerian fire, came in 1902 to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...Born 1765 at Westboro, Mass.; educated at Yale College; died 1825 at New Haven where he manufactured fire arms...
Suddenly a great boom disturbed the comparative quiet?the sound of artillery fire. Boom! Coffee cups stopped halfway to open mouths. Boom! Newspapers fell to the breakfast table. Boom! Boom! Boom! Inert bodies squirmed between the sheets. Boom! Boom! Boom! Alert businessmen and women resigned themselves to a long count?they hoped it would be a very long count. Boom! Boom! Boom! Twenty-one blank shots, in all, were fired. Ears strained for the 22nd. The pause grew longer and longer, but the 22nd boom never came...
...show their work, did not, as has previously been mandatory, limit each exhibitor to one picture. By including fewer artists, he allowed each one to send several representations. Lay visitors?including Calvin Coolidge, Andrew W. Mellon, Paul Claudel?were dazzled as they looked at the blobs of irregular fire against the walls of the Institute; never before has the International hung so many modernists or rated them so in the prize awards...
Captain Goos tried to haul up the American Girl, too, but gasoline ran over her hot engine, took fire. The flames shot into a towering pyramid, higher than the rescuing ship. An oil tanker avoids flames. The American Girl was abandoned. Said Miss Elder: "It was like watching an old friend drown...