Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small alcoved room in Doneraile Court, a Miss St. Leger became the only lady Free Mason. The popular story is that she hid in a clock, her family says she happened to fall asleep on a couch; anyhow, whether by design or accident, she overheard what the Free Masons were saying, so they made her one of their number. In her portrait the lady . . . has a dogged, impassible face [see cut]. I support the idea of the clock...
...whipping the Red armies in battle, U.S. advisers from General Marshall down ever more firmly warned he could not win. They still thought China should make a deal with the Communists. Dead set against any deal of the kind, Chiang cockily prophesied: "Given time, the ripe apple will fall into our laps...
...Hope took an ad lib fall off a barrel on a Hollywood set, landed in the hospital with a badly wrenched back...
...president, handsome William Henry Joyce Jr., 49, is taking no chances. For the past month, he has been skittering around Europe building his business. Last week, fast-moving Bill Joyce flew into London from Paris, announced that he was completing a deal to introduce Joyce shoes in France this fall. Like other foreign licensees, the French company will make the shoes according to Joyce specifications, pay a percentage on every pair sold...
Failure of a Mission. History has presented the bloody Cesare as diabolical, dazzling and colorful. Author Balchin makes him look like an austere combination of Sir Stafford Cripps and Cesare's own calloused admirer, the scholarly Niccolo Machiavelli. Cesare's fall came when Julius II, a deadly enemy of the Borgias, became Pope. Cesare wound up in Spain, where he was killed in battle...