Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...parlor will be cleared of all furniture and decorated in an appropriate manner. Pillows will be laid about the floor and a big fire will be lighted in the open fire-place. Refreshments of several kinds will be served...
...English, one must blame the critic's botany. Mr. Mackaye, we are told, "is too sane and healthy to retch the infinite." Alas! A. W. W. is not. "In the end, however, I should say of this poet: his are the bowels of pity, where is the belly of fire? And this would be my ultimate criticism. His soul needs ignition--if that means more fire." I do not know about Mr. Mackaye's soul, but I am sure the critic has found what his writing needs--ignition...
There is genuine fire in the poem entitled "The Game," by F. B. T. '13. Instruments of precision would doubtless show, in the case of any reader, measurable results on his respiration, circulation, and muscular tension, thus taking the question of the merit of the poetry out of the field of opinion and into the field of fact. The magnitude of the results thus measured, however, would depend in part upon the sensitiveness of the reader, and in part upon his experience in the game...
...Matthews, Weld, Grays, and Thayer! Fire! That's the burden of my prayer...
...President of Andover Theological Seminary, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock today. The general theme on which the addresses for the next two weeks will be given is "Mirrors for Men in the Old Testament." This morning's subject is "A Man Fascinated by Fire", Exodus 3: 1-11. No seats are reserved...