Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better name from stunned or dinary mortals. In a thousand ways the tenth muse's charms have outshone all the charms of her sisters. Only her priests are surviving her blinding polecy. They glory in a terrific combination of red and yellow geometric splashes with shouting black letters of "fire and rummage sale." They glory in page after page of pirate ship packages of candy next to linoleum and bathroom tiles of telephone romances next to ice-box detective stories--until infidels become dizzy. The hierarchy particularly glories in converts to the cohorts of the faithful who worship Advertisa, through...
Last week, a night fire blazed in the Hertz stables; a onetime jockey brought famed Reigh Count. Anita Peabody, and many another blindfolded out of burning stalls; eleven horses burned to death, screaming as they did so; the $300,000 stables turned into charred beams and ashes...
...Roosevelt's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He is, conspicuously, the man that Theodore Roosevelt the younger never became. Tall, with a chiselled countenance, blue eyes, curling light hair, he has exercised a vigorous public spirit ever since, as editor of the Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing law for a while in Manhattan. President Wilson made him Assistant Secretary of the Navy and asked him, in 1918, to run for Governor of New York. The War was on and Mr. Roosevelt...
...well of Willem Mengelberg. In Holland, where he is conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, he is a great man, travels on a diplomatic passport, is the pet ambassador of goodwill. With the Philharmonic he has established himself as a careful, conscientious leader with a fine flair for effects and fire enough to achieve them. His Wagner is weak as are most of his operatic undertakings but his classics, especially the German, are excellent, his Strauss supreme. He ranks high with the world's great conductors; not so high, however, as to be included in the lobby debates...
...Muskogee, Okla., John Coffey, a farmer, wished to smoke a pipe and lighted a match. The match broke and fell into a tank of kerosene. The kerosene began to burn and a cat walked past it. The cat's fur caught fire and Farmer Coffey chased the cat. The cat jumped into his haybarn and the haybarn burned down...