Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asses trying to appear indifferent when they are not, starving in Harvard Square hashhouses, and lying prostrate in idolatrous worship of the Great God Final Club. He takes a concluding paragraph to show that Harvard men are studious and passable. The result is a highly spiced article of sure-fire appeal to a public which wants its college atmosphere belching fire and brimstone...
...above notice, the original of which has recently been presented to the Baker Library of the Business School dates from the very early days when fire fighting, instead of being a purely personal matter, began to be conducted by an organized group. The first volunteer fire company was started in Philadelphia about 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand...
...fire companies more or less organized this system, providing an engine house for the pump, and delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps...
Come brim the mug and in the wanton fire...
...village of Zubeir some shepherds shouted excitedly that there were bandits about. Twenty miles, thirty, forty. Every now and then Missionary Bilkerd would stand up in the machine and peer about, but he could see no bandits. Fifty miles, sixty, suddenly from behind rocks sprang the bandits, opened fire...