Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rahman Bey, fakir, recently submerged himself for an hour, asserted that he owed his life to his ability to fall into a cataleptic trance. It was magic; until the trance was at an end he did not breathe. To Fakir Bey, Harry Houdini, trickster, gave the lie, donned blue trunks, a white shirt, a luminous wrist watch, entered an airtight tin coffin equipped with a telephone and electric pushbutton, was lowered to the depth of the Shelton Hotel Pool, Manhattan...
...shadow. To a gentleman who has just come from the Democratic and dry States, looking forward tremulously to 1928, the shadow of Gov. Smith may seem large and fearful, but . . . here in New York we Republicans are fully prepared to take care of Al Smith, shadow and all this fall...
...John Erskine is 46; that was long ago. Astonishment was general, therefore, when Professor Erskine appeared, quite professionally late for his first large audience in years, settled delicately into position and let flow from his fingers a performance quite as smooth and sophisticated as the conversation he had let fall from Trojan and Hellenic lips in his literary surprise. Once a breeze ruffled the music. Unruffled himself, Pianist Erskine caught the sheets and proceeded without a hitch. Once, to the dismay of the accompanying violins, the piano made an unexpected departure from the score, necessitating a momentary halt. "My fault...
...detachment upon young people's emotional equipment would be fearful to contemplate. They might never have the slightest desire to rush out to war for the motherland. They might reason so broadly about government that fine old political issues would become meaningless and forgotten, and states would perhaps fall into the hands of dreadfully efficient automatons like the ones Mr. Shaw and Mr. Wells put in their books, with no axes to grind, no slogans to shout and no fine frenzies to indulge...
...daily, amounted to $165,405,720 last half year. Heretofore the company's part-year reports have been only on the unfilled orders, as the $78,972,062 unfilled at the end of June this year ($66,468,992 the same date last year). But this fall, Oct. 25, the company will begin to make regular quarterly reports of earnings to the stockholders...