Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile France remembered that after the last Tardieu Cabinet fell (TIME, May 16, 1932), Colonel de La Rocque, who had never liked Tardieu I'Americain although willing to take banknotes where he could find them, referred publicly to the fallen Premier as a "political corpse." For this M. Tardieu in the witness box took ample revenge last week, although Colonel de La Rocque was there to shout in court: "This is not true! Tardieu lies...
...does not forget that the Founder of the Church was a social reformer who drove the money changers from the Temple and defended fallen women like Mary Magdalene...
...people in Harvard know that the music department possesses a fine Dolmetsch Harpsichord. Of these people, a very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...
...being the most startling single day in stockmarket history since famed Oct. 29, 1929. Prices ended about where they started, but in between they went through an excursion similar to Dr. Beebe's junkets to the bottom of the sea in a bathysphere. Prices on Monday had fallen in the worst break of the current decline and everyone anticipated that opening prices Tuesday would be down as a result of widespread margin calls...
...plantation life still offered its pre-Civil War social opportunities, pretty Letty Allard would never have sought diversion in the city, would not have fallen in with the fast country-club set where she met her unresisted married seducer, Jim Carter. And Jim, if he had lived in the Old South, would have been a sportsman instead of a frustrated adman and then manager of his Yankee father-in-law's diaper factory. And particularly, in the Old South there would have been no Yankee manufacturer to corrupt the South's younger generation with show-off social vulgarity...