Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, "Fireman, Save My Child", which burlesques the rivalry which used to exist between the old volunteer fire companies, W. W. Ryan '30 will play the role of the "heroine", while F. R. G. Giddens '30 will take a comic part...
...only ten days off now, but the poor arithmetic of a janitor who thought it had already come and took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much later, date...
...literary critic and exponent of advertising.* Under the title: "Lucky Strikes Save Florida's Crew," Mr. Calkins deplored the fact that Hero George Fried had hardly docked before he was endorsing Lucky Strikes via radio and newspapers. It is Mr. Calkins' agency that has created the famed Fire Demon in the Hartford Fire Insurance advertisements; to the testimonial demon Mr. Calkins is equally antagonistic...
Telegrams of congratulations to the happy parents of Herbert Hoover Smith of Vinton, Iowa take precedence over massacres in the Balkans. The wife of the President receives a delegation of the Camp Fire Girls in the Blue room; the President waves a fond farewell to the friends from home while the Secretary of the Navy is detained in the anteroom as a suspicious character. Far away is the echo of a voice, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth...
...glass-covered annex to the basement, will be installed the University bindery, which is being removed from Widener Library, where it has been declared a serious fire hazard. The remainder of the basement will be used for storage purposes...