Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popping of the rifles. Scouts, grenade dischargers, and wire cutters mingled in the heat of the fray, and many a sailor showed the potential ability of a movie actor by "biting the dust" with a consumate reality of the battle scenes in "What Price Glory." Little pin points of fire from blank shells glowed through the murkiness of the medical men ran about trantically with empty stretchers. All the ghastliness of bloody battle was spewed out on the peaceful field...
...will be presented at the Pops Concert at Symphony Hall tonight. Old Dances and Airs for the Lute (freely arranged) Respight Largo Handel (Solo, violin, harp, organ and strings) Minuet from Septet Beethoven Overture to Cinderella Rossini Kamarinskula Glinka Fantasy on two Serbian Themes Rimsky-Korsakov Suite from "The Fire-Bird," a Danced Legend Stravinsky Third Slavonic Dance Dvorak "Spring" for String Orchestra Greig Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt
...gratifying to be able to state that, so far as we have observed, there have been no efforts to interpret the devastating floods in the Mississippi valley as punishment inflicted by an outraged deity upon the sinful dwellers in the lowlands. If the calamity had been a tornado, a fire, an earthquake or a tidal wave, doubtless there would have been the usual outburst of piously blasphemous explanations that the divine patience was exhausted and that the sufferers were getting what was coming to them for their intolerable iniquities. It was so with Galveston, San Francisco and Florida...
...Chicago, the Council of Aldermen bumbled loudly when a bill was introduced to authorize fire-engine sirens on hearses. Undertakers had complained they were not receiving respect or public co-operation while following their profession...
...revisits Brittany, subdues its horrid Griffon, and, seeing "the still white fire of her necessity," learns to "lavish the comfort of kind lies" on the other Isolt, a child with grey eyes...