Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas, while sentencing Dr. John C. Dysart, proprietor of the Queen Anne Private Home at El Paso, Tex., to five years in the Leavenworth Penitentiary and fining him $2,500. Proprietor Dysart, it seems, had sent out some form letters, intended for physicians; but several of the letters fell into the feminine hands of El Paso schoolteachers. Irate, they called in the law. Proprietor Dysart was found guilty...
...awarded Nobel Peace Prizes, not one went to an Italian. Wrote the editor: "Fascismo wants justice for itself and others and has no ax to grind under false pretenses of peace. . . . [Referring to the Nobel award of Vice President Dawes]. Some nations unable to bear the burdens of victory fell prey to so-called economists who were nothing more than agents of international finance. The Dawes Plan aims to give the great War the judicial verdict of a bankruptcy trial. Where is there peace in all this? The Dawes Plan has nothing in common with peace...
...plain golden oak casket received Nikola Pashitch at the last. Slowly, on a rumbling gun carriage, he passed to his grave through broad avenues which were muddy roads in his youth. As clods fell upon the casket a priest bearing a silver tray of steamed wheat gave to each onlooker a few grains which they munched in mystic symbolism...
...Former Dictator Pangalos of Greece imposed a tax on bachelors which rose between age 20 and 40, and fell thereafter as the proliferous potentialities of the bachelor decreased. Bulgaria and the Irish Free State have a somewhat similar tax. A sensation was created recently in Sofia when a Turkish eunuch applied for exemption...
...sure, the Jamaica Kid had the option to hit back if he were able, but he knew after the second round that he would not be able long. An expression of physical terror, resigned and ghastly, spread over his black face. Delaney hit him in the stomach. The Kid fell down, got up. Delaney hit him on the jaw. The Kid fell down, got up. Five times this was repeated. The sixth time...