Word: firing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind, the annual exhibition of contemporary U.S. art that opened in Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week bulged with duds. Artists not invited to exhibit would consider the show too small, but for gallerygoers it was far too big. Of the 161 painters represented, only a handful had fire...
...transformed many things for Old Campaigner Pugmire. William Booth had a horror of holier-than-thou, middle-class respectability. A fear of respectability is reflected by the commissioner, who is the true son of an evangelist, even if he was never a rousing evangelist himself. The legend "Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse, street-corner fervor...
...Search. In New Haven, Conn., young Vito Manga, chased by police to the roof of a nurses' dormitory, explained how he had happened to be lurking on the fire escapes outside the building: he "was looking for a men's room...
...Critic. In Tecumseh, Mich., miffed by an "E" on his school report card, an eight-year-old tried to set fire to his school building...
When Houghton Library opened, three months after Pearl Harbor, it was described as "fireproof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...