Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence of his letter that as butler or doorman of the exclusive Authors Club of London he was tidying up the library and, after the members had departed, when he found TIME unconsumed in the fire place, sat himself down at the writing table and abused the stationery reserved for authors. His pleasant and gentlemanly use of the epithet "Yanks" further bears out my theory. The distinguished habitues of the Club doubtless call him "Dilly dow" for short. I can see him now in gorgeous yellow stockings...
...Doran: "We want no lawless law enforcement." Assistant Secretary Lowman: "There are to be no vital changes in enforcement regulations. . . . We are going to cut out catching people by technicalities in the law. . . . Enforcement must be sensible and upright." It was all in the vernacular. A politer enforcement hangs fire...
There she met a Polish artist, Count Markievicz. He was attracted perhaps by her pale, fragile beauty, perhaps by the twinkling fire in her blue eyes. They married?Irishwoman and Pole?uniting in a miniature alliance the characteristics of their irrepressible, astounding peoples...
Meanwhile the police continued so outnumbered that those who sought to charge or quell the crowds, were mostly seized, pummeled, stripped of their uniforms and turned loose in the indignity of underwear. The garrison at Vienna refused to fire upon "our brothers." When fire engines clanged forth to the Justiz-Palast irate workers stormed and smashed the apparatus. Meanwhile labor organizations had declared a general strike, thus paralyzing communication. Telegraphs and telephones were silent. Trains, Danube steamers and even the German-owned air service were stopped. For 48 hours news from Vienna came only in the form of smuggled rumors...
...feminist, Transcendentalist, brilliant conversationalist and essayist; reviewed books of Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, et al., for the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley; was feted in England; married a dashing Italian; experienced and chronicled the Roman Revolution. Returning home, aged 40, she was shipwrecked and drowned off Fire Island...