Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after losing several partners in battle he falls victim to the distrust of his squadron mates, who believe him jinxed. Louis Hayward, a fellow officer, strikes up a friendship with him and makes his machine gunner in several brilliant air-raids. Meanwhile, in Paris and at camp, Hayward has fallen in love with Miriam Hopkins, Muni's wife, and this time it's no design for living. A situation that sacrifices the friendship of the two men on the altar of a woman's love can only result in the death of one of the lovers, and with superb irony...
...automobile driven by a friend, James F. Gerrity '39 and Francis W. Scofield '40 ran seven of the 26 grueling miles of the B. A. A. Marathon yesterday. Leading 30 contestants at the time, the Crimson plodders were forced to withdraw because of indigestion, leg and shin cramps, blisters, fallen arches, and various other ailments...
...have been merely a cloud passing across the sun. But more than one observer noted last week that a cool wind was blowing and a shadow had fallen on the President's popularity-his popularity not with the public but with that circle of a few thousand men who constitute official Washington. To the people who voted for him last November, Franklin Roosevelt was Mr. Right, but to official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith and trust in Roosevelt the victor...
...fitting time to settle a bitter strike is not on a fine fresh morning, nor on a sultry afternoon. It is after the shades of night have fallen, when fatigue and strain have weakened the obstinacy of men, and peace, like sleep, comes to knit up the raveled sleeve of contention. In all respects but one the settlement of the Chrysler automobile strike was thus fitting. After 9 o'clock the evening of the eleventh day of negotiation, Governor Frank Murphy emerged from a smoke-filled office at Lansing to announce that agreement had been reached. Shortly before midnight...
...despite his genuine sympathy with the cause of teaching, Governor Hurley has fallen victim to the benighted belief that the clammy hand of authority can root out radical thinking. No authority under the sun possess the power to root out any thinking, whether it be radical or reactionary. Authorities in the Middle Ages tried to root out heresy, only to see it spread like wildfire. The sole force that can root out erroneous thinking is the ultra-violet ray of truth. For "the vicious minorities whose motives are inimical to. . . the principles on which the Republic was founded" will never...