Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty minutes before the flag should have fallen the old prospectors made a rush. Whooping, they dashed through the thin police line, got the best dirt staked out before startled athletes could catch...
Last fortnight Fisherman McShallis lay at death's vestibule, from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...
...trial, which had long since become a legal farce, drew to a close without any real evidence against the character of Mr. Gladstone having been adduced. Viscount Gladstone admitted that Mr. Gladstone often spoke to fallen women on the street, but explained away all taint of scandal as follows: "My father founded the Newport Market Refuge for Women, and helped to found St. Mary Magdalene Home as a refuge for fallen women. I remember going to these places with him as a boy. My mother went too. The main social work in which my father and mother were interested took...
Viscount Gladstone's attorney interrupted at this point to read from the works of Viscount Morley concerning Mr. Gladstone: "In these humane efforts at reclamation among fallen women! he persevered all through his life, fearless of misconstruction, fearless of the levity or baseness of men's tongues...
...dashed down centre ice, passed all the Laval defenders and shot the puck to Zarakov in the right lane. The latter barely caught the disk, but flicking it back to Scott, enabling him to drive a score into the free net. The tally, however, was disallowed because Zarakov had fallen and struck the ice before the puck had left...