Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unfortunately, before the matter was settled, British cruisers arrived a Wanhsien, and opened fire on the town, destroying a thousand houses, killing a thousand civilians and a hundred gendarmerie. Other cruisers appeared, training guns on Wanhsien. The Chinese returned the fire in self-defense...
...Yangtze. The 40 foreign warships patroling the Yangtze River last week were subjected to incessant and haphazard fire from the embattled Chinese soldiery. The U. S. gunboat Pigeon was hit by some hundreds of Chinese rifle and machine gun bullets and the three U. S. sailors were slightly wounded. The French gunboat Baliny was likewise fired upon, as were numerous British destroyers and merchant craft, but no casualties were reported...
Gertrude Ederle: "In Cleveland last week I rushed to the Radio Show before finishing supper. So I grabbed my dessert and ate it on the way. Said I: 'I don't care for such an exciting, rapid-fire existence. ... I never train. I eat what I please and when I please...
...Fire: God made it beautiful...
...British Cabinet (1924), but an act of his was the immediate cause of the Cabinet's fall. One J. Ross Campbell had been arrested on a charge of sedition for publishing in the Worker's Weekly an article appealing to British soldiers, sailors and airmen not to fire upon British workmen, should their officers ever order them to do so. Sir Patrick, as Attorney General ordered the charge against Mr. Campbell withdrawn. At once the Communist sheetlets began publicly to rejoice that the Government is at last acting as a Labor Government should." In vain, Sir Patrick protested...