Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pendergastlies gave a Starman a pistol-whipping about the head, chased him back to the Star. From there on it was open war, with Roy Roberts, then the Star's managing editor, planning much of the reformers' strategy. It was the beginning of Pendergast's decline & fall...
...Laugh. The letter read: "Don't you think it is about time you gave a sermon to your flock about the disgraceful scandal mongering and backbiting by members of your church, especially your warden's wife. She has not a good word for anybody who does not fall with her. She should remember that she is ... at best only a washerwoman and not too clean at that. She thinks she and her poor half-witted man own the church. . . . You poor mutt. . . . You [and your wife] are a bright couple of spiving gluttons...
...orange curtain that helped Dickson camouflage his curves was not much help to Big Bill ("Hard Luck") Bevens, the Yankee pitcher. Cardinal bats pounded Bevens for seven runs before he got them out in the first inning. Then Bill, who had lost a one-hitter in last fall's World Series, walked dejectedly to the bench...
...ally, the Seafarers, was the one-man creation of bespectacled M. David Keefe, onetime Stock Exchange employee. Dave Keefe had started as a $15-a-week page boy; after 13 years he had worked himself up to $37. He organized the union in 1942, saw it almost fall apart after he joined the Seabees. He pulled it together again after war's end and, boasting a membership of 5,000, held contracts with both exchanges...
American's President Ralph S. Damon predicted that such developments would mean an improvement in earnings for the entire industry this year. Eastern's President Eddie Rickenbacker thought that the industry had already hit bottom, "and would be out of the red by fall...