Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used by generations of game spectators and cursed by them for draughts and splinters, according to Dennis Enright, guardian of Soldiers Field, yesterday in an interview. This is the last time they will ever be whole, for a final curse has been, brought down upon them by the Boston Fire Department...
...rapid fire barrage of mythical football teams at present being laid down by the daily press has discouraged many a peaceful breakfast hour. Digestion is impossible for many who feel intensely on subjects athletic, when they find that obvious super-tackles are not even mentioned by the eclectics who pick the all-so-and-so elevens...
...Navy chief yeoman's cap, the chief yeoman of U. S. foreign trade and diplomacy whiled away the cruising days with constitutionals around the deck, reading detective stories, reclining on a cabin lounge to chat with the 20 newsmen aboard, observing naval mysteries such as range-finding and fire-control in the gun turrets, and in dictating memoranda to several stenographers. Mrs. Hoover sat on deck, knitting...
...many ways an "ideal" Congressman. His large staff of secretaries is continually occupied doing things for his constituents. His correspondence is vast, perhaps 50,000 letters per annum. He was in Speaker Longworth's class at Harvard. He still takes pride in having been "the first American to fire a shot against the Austrians after the declaration of war by the U. S. at Capo d'Argine, on Piave River, December...
...engage in these activities on a large scale and once in this same person studies only that he may remain, and become a Big Man. The constant information that seeps back to the old school about former graduates who are now Big Men in various colleges fans this fire nowhere so violently as in the private preparatory schools...