Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Michael "loves to play with fire. . . and his tutors are afraid that some day he will burn down the entire palace with, everybody...
...overnight guests at the State Lodge. Also, Mr. McKelvie had been at the President's South Dakota Executive Office just before making his speech and was reported to have gone over it with Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President. Thus reporters, logical, deductive, concluded that he had officially . opened fire on the Lowden boom and prophesied that the onetime Governor of Nebraska would be the sometime pre-convention Coolidge Manager in the farm belt...
...long conference with Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy of Marion County, Ind. Then he released certain checks to Indianapolis papers-checks made out to Republican Indiana statesmen, politicians, including Governor Ed Jackson. Last fortnight the conference and check excitement had somewhat died down but last week Mr. Stephenson opened fire again and the Indiana situation experienced three new developments...
Down at the house, Morhead returns, made more bestial by War. The women are drawn to the God, "the black maypole," on the mountain, which now is scourged to the north by fire from the camps. Natalia smothers her child to preserve its innocence. April, informed with her dead brother's spirit, smuggles out a pistol to kill her father but quails at sight of him, shoots herself instead. He roams back into the burnt hills, fasting, escaped from human automatisms, inexhaustible, thirsting to create...
...John Creed safely among the dunes of France. With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides in a creek, saves lives right & left while preserving himself for a happy and innocent ending. Author Marsden's smooth blend of color and complication might well start the addiction of conscientious objectors to the detective story...