Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protection, but the Council was afraid to bring out the militia, as it was thought that the militia might join the mutineers. The soldiers declared that they wanted their pay and intended to take it from the treasury. They pointed their guns at the Congressional windows but did not fire them. Congress sent an urgent message for help to Washington, who was then at West Point, and without waiting to see what the result would be, the members of Congress unheroically slipped through the back door and made their way through a golden June sunset to Princeton in New Jersey...
Said Frank R. Kent, of the Baltimore Sun: "The San Francisco earthquake and fire does not compare with this as a national calamity. Nothing else . . . since the Civil War is in its class...
Policeman Romero was vexed. He waited outside the club. When, some hours later, young Señor Calles stepped forth and entered his motor car, Policeman Romero fired upon him with a heavy army revolver. Strong men seized Policeman Romero from behind, as he continued to fire, bore him to the sidewalk. But already Señor Calles had slumped down in his seat...
...Ludmilla" Glinka "Khovantchina," Prelude Moussorgsky Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathetic," Tchaikovsky Op. 74 Adagio; Allegro non troppo Allegro con grazia Allegro molto vivace Finale; Adagio Iamentoso Kikimora, A Fairy Legend Liadov Berceuse from "The Fire-Bird" Stravinsky Caprice on Spanish Themes Rimsky-Korsakov...
Some years there is rain: in others there is merely weather assorted varieties of mediocrity. But whether the winds blow and crack their cheeks, whether rain spouts or fire spits there is a Jubilee, accompanied by juvenile jubilancy. As this paper goes to press the prospects are equally auspicious for drenching showers or those sunbeams whose absence have for a month made Cambridge merely a temporary precipitation in an aqueous solution. Therefore the wise Freshman will be prepared to don anything from the flannels to the security of oilskins...