Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zaghlul, widow of the great anti-British statesman Zaghlul Pasha (1860-1927), was active at Cairo last week in checking ill-timed anti-British riots by Members of his party, the Wafd. She and servants played a fire hose on certain rioters. Others, unchecked, lost their heads so completely that they mistook for an Englishman and attacked the Principal of the American College outside of Cairo, Dr. Charles P. Russel of Hastings, Neb. At him was thrown acid which burned him, though not dangerously...
...picked up a family-less boarder in Manhattan, took him to Westport to paint the Lawson house, drugged him. Mr. Lawson went out to chat with a neighbor, taking care to establish the fact that he was going back home to spend the evening. Then he set fire to his own home and left for Manhattan. The police were to find the bones of the drugged boarder charred beyond all recognition; Mrs. Lawson was then to collect her husband's $75,000 insurance. But the boarder regained consciousness in time to jump out of a window; and Mr. Lawson...
...recognized; in the second, the purpose of preparing for one's career in life is the guiding force. But in the college the student drifts about on uncharted waters. Seemingly there is nothing for the college to do but guide the motiveless creature through the morasses or else fire him with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea of self-education in the nineteenth century. No wonder that so many students in this complex age turn back in distress at the magnitude of the task...
...task immediately in hand gives no clue to the fact that he is at last equally interested in six other matters at the same moment--a man whose career is a successful rebuttal of the adage that it is a mistake to have too many irons in the fire...
COQUETTE-Helen Hays as a young Southern lady who plays too dangerously with the fire of caprice (TIME...