Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very inconvenient.' They therefore begged Mather to use his influence with the Overseers to have the date altered to the second Wednesday in July or to the first Tuesday, that is, July 1. The change was eventually made to July 1 but before Commencement Day arrived the President had fallen sick and Rev. William Hubbard of Ipswich was appointed to preside at the exercises and to confer the degrees. The President himself died the next day, July 2, the sun beginning to emerge out of a central eclipse...
Sloth drowses in his garden. His flowers have long fallen away, and round his sotted head creep the lank leaves of poison...
What made matters worse was that Australia, in her first innings, had scored 450 runs. England had begun to reply splendidly, with 157 for only one man out, but then slumped off to finish her first innings at 298. Dust storms had whirled, torrents of rain fallen, yet Australia had piled up 452 more runs in second innings. What had England done about that...
...step more and we shall be a full-fledged member of the family of nations. We shall slap France upon the back, raise our hat to England-with a touch of hauteur to show we are her equal. We can be a trifle patronizing to our late, fortune-fallen master, Spain. As for this overbearing U. S., we shall cut him dead...
...them-frayed bravos with cauliflower cars, rakish noses, thick necks, entreating eyes. They catch your glance, they wink, edge over. It is no drink that they want, no sandwich, no news about a pretty thing in the second race. They want to impart something. For these are the fallen kings of boxing,' they who have knocked out champions and never gotten credit for it, who have been champions and are forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers...