Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engagement to give material and moral grandeur to the Italian people. That order, that supreme duty was not given to me by petty lawmaking-assemblies or by political circles, more or less clandestine. It was conferred upon me-and the heritage is sacred by reason of all the Fascists fallen in battle-by all, or almost all, the Italian people...
...raised him above his fellows to the position and estate demanded by an acquisitive nature. If the house is still owned by relations of the builder, you may not see in them many traces of the old blood. But should you find the builder's kin elsewhere, and fallen on hard days, mark how often some intensity of the old blood will have been its own undoing...
...Worst Stories," slept, left the next morning. Mr. Rogers then informed the press: "I guess I was too much for him. We sat around in the living-room upstairs, swapping yarns, but by 8 o'clock he started to yawn and by 10 o'clock he had fallen asleep...
...test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had taken one last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs in plaster. With neither broken leg yet mended, he had fastened clips on his plaster casts to operate the rudder ,bar. After a few trial hops, he had given exhibitions. Then, with his crutches...
...little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr. A machine gun battery, using ammunition left over from the World War, was firing a barrage over their heads. Suddenly General Mueller clutched his side, fell dead. A bullet, its charge weakened by age, had fallen short...