Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Traditionally a bright-eyed orphan boy turned the two latticed metal globes upon which all depended. First he spun the great ticket globe, from which, as it stopped, a single lucky ticket fell. Then the smaller prize globe spun, revealed which of the 2,596 prizes had been won by the individual lucky ticket just drawn...
When ticket No. 17,229 fell from the ticket globe no stir was occasioned; but an instant later, amid a deadly hush, the $2,500,000 Grand Prize disc was seen to have rattled down...
Astute diplomats have long recognized the wisdom of granting enemies, within discretion, a share of the realm. Thus was built the Roman Empire of old. That it finally fell by its inclusions was only because it became effete during and not because of the process. Last week a most significant ceremony occurred in Rome, at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran (Roman Catholic). Protestant President Doumergue of France was inducted (by proxy) as Canon.* The ceremony, attended by the whole Cathedral chapter, was a revival, after 100 years, of a distinction once granted the kings of France. The delicate matter...
...Fair Lawn, N. J., the chow dog of a Mrs. Robert Schurer, having bitten her before, fell upon her in the kitchen when she was alone, floored her, bit and worried her until she was unconscious, fled through the house when Mr. Schurer brought a policeman, expired of bullet-wounds in the coal...
Near Peebles, Ohio, one Perry Stansberry, weary after a raccoon hunt, slumped down beside his fireplace, filled his corncob pipe with loose tobacco from his pocket, lit, puffed, ruminated, fell back bruised and stunned by the explosion in his pipe-bowl of a .22-calibre rifle cartridge...