Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight across China, those words expressed all that he had distilled out of his experience. Expelled with six other Europeans by the Bolsheviks from "the very middle of Asia," later held in custody in Aqsu. Serafimov had spent a winter in a particularly colorful environment of Asiatic depravity, had fallen in love with a haggard Russian prostitute and, having finally touched the lowest depth of despair and loneliness, had attained a lasting state of grace by strangling a companion fugitive...
...Profits per store rose momentarily to $10,700 in 1934, have fallen steadily since...
More like the great Clarence Darrow, unlike such fabulous criminal defenders as the late William Fallen whose jury victories were often n to i disagreements, and who was acquitted of giving a bribe to a juror although the juror, in a separate trial, had been convicted of receiving the bribe from Fallen, Lawyer Liebowitz has won his jury verdicts outright. The records disclose only one accusation of tampering with justice. In 1932 a county judge in Brooklyn dismissed an indictment based on unsupported testimony of a confessed prostitute that Liebowitz had coached her what to testify against the police stool...
...when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation, we bow in sorrow. A pillar of strength is gone, a soldier has fallen with face to the battle...
...home he asserted himself by arguing with the Queen that the children should be allowed a little more choice about marrying. Max had fallen in love with a church social worker, who put him to work scrubbing floors. When the Cabinet learned she was the daughter of their worst enemy, the Archbishop, they threatened to resign unless the King did something about it. The King beat them to the draw by handing in his own resignation. On the day the King's abdication was to take place, the Prime Minister threw a bomb close enough to his carriage...