Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another part of the city, at decaying Lafayette Square, other laborers fell upon the red brick house that John Hay built to be near his friend Henry Adams, in a golden day of cultured U. S. statesmanship. The Hay and Adams houses (twins) were sold last summer to make way for "Carlton Chambers" apartment (TIME, Sept...
...revolver no one, afterward, could tell, or why, meeting an old woman and her daughter in the lane, he began to quarrel with them. Mr. Johnson, some said, had had a love affair with the daughter. He ended the conversation by shooting each woman in the mouth. They fell dead. He ran to his home, barricaded door and window. He had another revolver in the house and 150 rounds of ammunition. A crowd of students from Carson-Newman College gathered outside. Murderer Johnson fired into the crowd, killed a football player. With machine guns, tear bombs, automatic rifles, deputy sheriffs...
...which are now rare indeed. The prints used for Godey's Lady's Book reveal how widespread was puss's honored position in 19th Century society. The best ladies were seldom seen without a cat or cats, which were, in fact, so numerous that children fell over them in parlors...
...will tell you he was born on the Indian Ocean. At 6, enamored of red circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...
...that they could take it home to- gether. There are bandits in Trenton. . . . Suddenly, on the door of the gas station, boomed a loud knock. Mr. Frommel jumped up. As he opened the door he saw two Trenton bandits with guns, scowls, masks, caps and sweaters. Terrified, Edward Frommel fell back in a sitting posture. The thieves leaped at the door, shoved it fiercely back upon the hickory leg of Edward Frommel. The bandits cursed. Mr. Frommel screamed. Wedged between the door and the floor, the leg kept out the ruffians...