Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fire, Friends...
...Madonne and Child by Bellini--formerly in the Crespi Collection of Milan--was sent to this country in 1923 for a New York Collection. On the way the steamer on which it had been shipped caught fire, and the painting, though not actually damaged by the flames, was apparently rained by steam, which melted and cracked the gesso ground and loosened the paint. When the picture reached its destination, small pieces of paint all over the surface were detached from the background. Although the pieces were for the most part in place, a few of them through careless handing...
Undoubtedly Miss Parker has read Miss Millay and in all probability she has admired her. But to class her work as one of the Millay school is to deny her the elusive fire of originality. Mr. Wilson might just as well said that Miss Parker was of the Petrarch school, since her sonnet form bears resemblances to his. To condemn a lady who pens admirable hymns of hate to any one school is dogmatic especially when that lady can write a touching sonnet concerning a maid standing waiting at the gate and concluding with the illuminating statement that...
...which they had their respective apartments, one of those remodeled houses west of Fifth Avenue-a restaurant on the first floor, a dressmaking place on the second. The two girls lived across the hall from Actor Daly. Smoke woke them up in the night. The stairs were on fire...
They rushed to the window in their nightgowns, screaming. The street was full of people. In a minute the Fire Chief's car came round the corner. The driver ran upstairs in the next building and climbed across a ledge to their window. When the ladders came he handed one girl to a fireman and carried the other down himself. The crowd cheered. Now the girls remembered the actor. A fireman went back for him. He found him sitting in his pajamas in a chair by the window. He was dead. His body was burned but recognizable. There...