Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Il Duce, once a hod-carrier: "Madame, your poems have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...
...ideas in an attic. Inventor Baird prefers baggy, woolly suits with a potent plaid; he has been so heavily handicapped by lack of money that parts of his first apparatus were improvised from dismembered bicycles, shoeboxes, wax, twine, pliers, screws, gimcracks. Last week, the manna of money fell thickly about him. A company with a capital of $625,000 was incorporated in London to exploit and perfect his process of television...
...Billy Hallas, wrestlers of unimportance, climbed into a ring, each prepared to force his opponent's clavicles to the mat. Scuffling for a hold, the two grunters permitted their respective skulls to collide with great force. Unconscious - "even for wrestlers," as able Sports Writer McGeehan put it- both fell and lay where they had fallen. The referee was puzzled; noted that Hallas was resting on his back; Parelli on his side; proclaimed the comatose Parelli winner...
...Arthur Meeks of Belleville, Ontario, was pruning a tree last week. He sawed and sawed until a limb fell to the ground. Pruner Meeks was sitting on that limb. At the hospital, physicians say that he may not live...
...Post-Democrat fared worse. A fugitive from indictment for criminally libeling Judge Dearth, by saying that His Honor's maladministration of justice was morally responsible for a pair of murders, Editor Dale had been abiding across the state line, in Ohio. But last week his daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman of self-righteousness...