Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Consult Mr. Marcus Faithful." Then, as an immaculately tailored magnifico, he accords exceedingly confidential interviews to hundreds of expectant London ladies, relieving them of maternal anxieties and fat fees. A fallen gentleman, Mr. Still, is his able secretary. A charming, competent demimondaine blackmails her way into the business, putting it on a wholesale basis through the post. After a certain number of months, of course, the jig seems up, and Mr. Marcus Faithful becomes small Mr. Crump again, dismayed when his hitherto barren wife bears twins as the result of secret correspondence with Mr. Faithful. The rich travesty on modern...
Revolutionaries Cabecadas, da Costa and Carmona represent merely themselves and such officers and armed forces as they are able to muster in their personal defense. They were associated while launching the coup which ousted President Machada. Since then they and many another of their peers or henchmen have fallen a-quarreling over the spoils. So little interest is taken by the populace and even the army in their doings that the last three routine revolutions have been run off without the firing of a single shot...
...Passed the Dill Radio Bill, putting control in hands of a commission of five, thereby relieving Secretary of Commerce Hoover of one of the many regulatory problems which have, since 1920, fallen his way. Radio commissioners' salary will be $10,000. The theory of the bill is expressed in the declaration that "Use, but not ownership of channels of radio transmission will be allowed under license for a limited period of years." (Bill went to the House which had already passed a one-man radio-control bill. Differences between Senate and House bills are to be settled in conference...
...drainage canal out of Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. Other states bordering the Great Lakes are fighting this diversion tooth and nail in the courts. Their Congressmen have grown hoarse and damp-eyed relating piteous tales of the mud flats, grounded steamers and stricken trade resulting from fallen lake levels. The matter has been reported in "threatening" terms by Canadians to their Parliament...
Among the equestriennes could have been seen blonde Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, grand marshal of the crusade, onetime belle of the Weston-Super-Mare élite, later reclaimed for evangelical uplift among the fallen women of West London, later captured by gaolers for over-strenuous female Suffrage onslaughts, presently flying about speechmaking to the effect that...