Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kemal was, of course, the second husband of Halide Edib. She perhaps kindled the first elemental spark of his present passion for Occidentalizing Turkey. But long before the fire burned, Kemal and Halide had parted. She divorced him when he proposed to take a second wife under the old polygamous law of Turkey. Paradoxically he turned to this same old law when he wished to divorce his second wife, and accomplished the deed simply by repeating three times the traditional formula: "I divorce you." Shortly thereafter the new Turkish code, containing Occidentally stringent divorce laws, came into effect...
...were assembling at Alba Julia, two airplanes reputedly chartered by Prince Carol waited at Croydon airdrome, near London, laden with 120,000 manifestos announcing the return of Carol to Rumania. Operatives of Scotland Yard were understood to have seized the manifestos. The text of these leaflets, apparently designed to fire the sluggard peasants to action, began: "Rumanians, do not forget King Ferdinand's son! [i. e., Carol]." The likelihood that a Carol coupe de leaflets could have succeeded seemed nil to persons who observed that at Alba Julia the peasants carried and displayed pictures of King Mihai and Dowager...
...that book in its journeyings throughout the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith. These things are hidden until some man or some people is touched beyond all this by divine fire, and the result is one of those great revivals of religion which repeatedly through the centuries have startled the world and stimulated mankind and which, as sure as we are meeting in this room, will recur again...
...London; to Countess Atalanta Mercati; 22, daughter of Count Alexandre Mercati, former Chamberlain of the Court of Greece; at the Greek Orthodox Church, Cannes, France. During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished. Only one prominent citizen of Cannes was absent: Mayor Andre Capron, 76, ill of shock suffered when a demented woman fired at him the morning of the ceremony...
Died. Edward Osgood Richards, 71, president and manager of the Automatic Fire Alarm Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...