Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked by the governor of Massachusetts to assume the position of district attorney for the Northern District, which includes Middlesex County. The governor drafted him to assume this position at a time when the previous district attorney had been the object of an investigation and had resigned under fire. The success of Saltonstall under these circumstances distinguished him, but the strain was thought by his friends to have hastened his death, which occurred...
...some years now since the Roving Reporter received his sheepskin from a New England college, shed a tear or two on the chapel steps and departed either to set the world on fire or discover that its principal ingredient was asbestos...
...Greene, Me., a fire occurred on the farm of John Sawyer. Firemen failed to save three buildings, used up all their water. Then they filled their pump with barrels of Farmer Sawyer's vinegar, squirted it at a fourth building, saved...
...West Pointers have two "wives" each. Third member of the Cagle-Herbert family is George W. Lermond, the Army's ablest track man. Wife Lermond stands in the middle of his class academically. *The Army-Navy quarrel over eligibility of first-year men still hangs fire. There will be no Army-Xavy game this year...
...that being "the greatest football halfback since Red Grange" helps him with his studies, though J. A. K. Herbert sometimes does.† But neither does his fame diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and schoolgirl illusions to the contrary notwithstanding. Christian Keener Cagle is not a domineering, fire-eating, muscle-bulging hero off the gridiron. He is quiet, retiring. He brought a drawl but not much rambunctiousness with him from Louisiana. He is not even redhaired, as legend says, nor six feet tall. But two feet are better than six if they can carry you as fast...