Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Scales and the Sword," by Farnham Bishop, graduate student, is set in a small grocer's shop on the day of a great fire which upsets the social order of a vast city. It is the tragedy of individual blind selfishness and cupidity shattered against relentless martial...
...their subject, touching it only here and there, become obscure and ludicrous. Second, you must never leave a noun without an effective adjective, or a verb without a striking adverb. It is Stevenson who by his example advocates this part of the recipe; and thus "The Heritage" has the fire burning "sulkily in the close, dismantled library" and the hero's face "fresh, young, and ruddy from his gray ride over the boggy roads," etc. The tale is better than most of its brand, with interesting characters sharply defined in a charming and well realized environment; but the brand...
...dances of the past two years, no additional ornaments were placed in the Living Room, where the dancing was held, other than a large class banner, and an American flag draped over the fire-place. The receiving party stood in the north corner of the room. The lobby, liked the Living Room, was not extensively decorated, the only ornaments being laurel festoons draped from the lights, and potted palms in the corners. The decorations in the rooms of the west wing and the Dining Room, in all of which boxes were located, had been carefully planned and artistically arranged...
...library, which is a famous theological collection and consists of about 70,000 volumes, some of which are rare manuscripts and first editions, will be housed in a specially constructed fire-proof stone and steel section of the building, having stack room for 150,000 volumes. With it will be placed the Harvard Theological Library. The chapel will be on the second floor of one division of the building and will be lighted by windows of old English pattern for which glass of the 13th and 14th century style is to be made. In the building will be four class...
...LECTURE. "The Proper Assessment of Fire Insurance Rates in Great Cities." Mr. Henry E. Hess, of New York, N. Y. Emerson...