Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow Senator from Nebraska, (1911-23) was his most cherished foe. But year by year his fire died down as he found the institutions he fought as impregnably intrenched as ever. In 1923, Senator Hitchcock, defeated, retired; Senator Norris, robbed of both foe and issues yearned for a quiet life on the Nebraskan plains. But, back to the Senate he went, disillusioned...
Since there were evidently only two chimneys in the building, very few rooms had a private fire, and so on cold nights, the students were forced to retire to the hall, where they warmed themselves by the fire and studied by the light of "the public candle." Charges to the students were made for the maintenance of both these conveniences...
Chiang Kai-shek explained his plan. It depended on his ability to fire his 10,000 soldiers with sufficient enthusiasm to follow him in a direct frontal attack on the walled city of Waichow during which they would nearly all most certainly be killed...
...Navy Wilbur, interviewed by Washington correspondents last week, recounted to them a little homily about a U.S. marine who served during the Boxer campaign. This marine, said Mr. Wilbur, spoke up and told the commander of certain troops of a certain foreign power that his men ought not to fire at a group of Chinese. The advice was taken, the Chinese spared; but the marine was later rebuked by a U.S. officer for speaking to a foreign officer. "Aw," he replied, "I didn't mean no harm...
...wide as my automobile crashed into a milk wagon at Flushing, N.Y., en route from Manhattan to Spratbrae, my Oyster Bay, L. I., home. The hit horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur].' . . . Joe and the two in the milk wagon soon recovered from minor injuries. My car burned to the ground...