Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come into intimate association with the professor's moments of research. There the real character of the teacher appears. Things he cares most about are conveyed to the student from his love of scholar ship and his devotion to new-truth. The students catch a glimpse of the divine fire and are themselves inflamed. Yet how rare is the provision in the American college curriculum for such movements. It is, I believe, largely because the students themselves, judging by the superficial qualities of the professor's attitude, remain indifferent to the things about which he cares the most, that these...
...most beautiful is a choral by Bach with a flute obbligato, a lonely little miniature of delicately etched tone which rises, swells and is gone like a breath of increase. Immediately after it comes in old hymn by Vittorio. "Ovos Ommes," which, with its long singing, phrases and fire crescendos seems to each among the dim aisles and die softly away in the clowdy depths of the cathedral which it conjures up before the listener...
...There is no country traveled by man which combines as Iceland does the antagonistic marvels of frost and steam, of ice and fire, of bloom and color, of darkness and light. It is, on the whole, unequaled in all Europe for its gushing fountains of seething water, for its stupendous streams of lava, for its vast volume of milk-white torrents plunging over grim and swarthy rocks, for the varied, weird and fantastic forms of its mountains, for the intense green of its meads and lowlands, and often of its climbing slopes, for the luminous tints of its peaks...
...majestic mountains and lordly forests brooding over the hellish intrigues of red-skinned desperadoes, the Northwest Mounted are pictured in the first heroic adventure of their notable history. The immediate cause of their appearance: the sad plight of Actress Renee Adoree, menaced by a well filmed circle of fire, by a loathsome Indian scoundrel. Actor Antonio Moreno, sergeant, rides over tl hills, through the fire. The audience heartily endorses his oncoming, because Actress Adoree deserves an elegant rescue...
Lake Michigan never had tides but Chicago had the ebb and flow of fire to fortune, prosperity to panic, good blood to bad, old homes to ugly apartments, "joints" to skyscrapers. And human careers either breasted these tides or were swept by them to good or ill. There is nothing superlatively able about the story's hero, Alan Wheelock, but he is swept to wealth, and away to New York, because he happens to learn shorthand at the right time. Contrariwise, the innocence and integrity which he inherits from his oak-hearted grandfather deter him from capturing the heroine...