Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suites of rooms in Stoughton Hall has had a varied and colorful history, for it has undergone innumerable remodeling, has passed unscathed through a fire which burned rooms on the dormitory floors above and below, and has had its walls decorated with a procession of faculty members with animal bodies pursuing recalcitrant students. No one knows the full story of this unusual suite of rooms, but enough of the details have been unearthed to indicate the vigorous undergraduate life which took place in the old hall a hundred years...
...they are nothing more than institutions of learning." Nothing more gloriously ironic has ever emanated from any editorial column. One wishes that one might believe the World's Greatest Newspaper to have its tongue in its cheek, to be heaping coals of fire on those colleges and universities who live and die by their virgin goals lines. Such an attitude would be possible with almost any other journal in these United States--excepting the Chicago Tribune. They are not given to sardonics, these western magogs. They are sorry maliciously and gloatingly sorry...
Then the volley of six rifles speaking as one sounded as the officer let his sword fall as the signal to fire. General Quijano dropped to the ground, his body convulsing. On orders from the officer, a soldier approached the quivering form and put the muzzle of his rifle against the general's head, pulled the trigger. Thus died General Quijano, brave to the last...
...helped his mates in plays. He made no errors. But Buffalo scored no runs. Toledo made four, and won the game & the series. Andrew Cohen's share of the series' receipts was $750. Toledo players, victorious, received $1,000 each. ¶Past Brooklyn synagogs on Yom Kippur Day screeched fire trucks; from Brooklyn synagogs ran children and fasting members of congregations. The owner of the Boston Laundry had neglected to turn off his gas iron the eve of Yom Kippur, and, pious, would not approach his place of livelihood on the holy Day of Atonement when Jews...
...trial for "insolence, insubordination, and the possession of a domineering attitude," School Superintendent of Chicago William McAndrew said: "They [the School Board] will fire me all right, but they'll have to stage a burlesque show to do it" (TIME, Oct. 10). After a week's adjournment of his trial, the second act was presented...