Word: fall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presentations of Rostand's play that I have acted in have not been in succession. They are actually spaced over six seasons, 250 being my record for consecutive performances of Cyrano, and then I was forced to interrupt that string because of an injury resulting from my fall from a balcony...
...Hence, the location of bombs was not part of a smuggling plot diverted from Agua Prieta to the east, but a plot to bomb the train of Mexican Federals (due between five and six that morning in Naco) who had been interned at Fort Bliss after the Ciudad Juarez fall and recently released and shipped to Xaco under protest of the Governor of Arizona...
...come abruptly into the court chamber. Facing you sit the nine Justices of the U. S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features, are not sharp. Level voices fall without echo in the shadows...
This law provides that anyone who publishes "a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical is guilty of a nuisance" and may be enjoined from further publication. In the fall of 1927 two men started publishing a Minneapolis weekly paper called The Saturday Press. After publishing nine issues they were hailed into court and the publication ordered suspended. They pleaded that the law was unconstitutional. The Minnesota Supreme Court held otherwise. Under the law the two publishers were perpetually enjoined from publishing their "nuisance" under the name of The Saturday Press or any other name. The case...
...eyed dancer, $100,000 for a first picture. $100,000 for a second, $150,000 for a third. She has contracted with First National. Sued-First National, by Jack Case, stunter: $75 for being thrown to the ground while riding two bucking horses at the same time; $10 per fall for seven falls from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into a river. Clown...