Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
...sick man vehemently denies that he is sick, Florida Rotarians and Realtors would have the world know that, in spite of the late unpleasantness, their state is still the earthly paradise. That there was a slight frolic of the elements, that rain drops fell, that breezes blew--all this the Floridians admit. But of disaster they will have naught. Photographs, presumably taken after the tempest, are spread over the country, and they show scenes in a peaceful southern clime, with slightly battered palms outlined gracefully against...
...hinterlands of Cambridge, always be quite sure--that a certain gentleman, hight Tunney, lieutenant of Marines, and sometimes called the crowned champion of the world, is to complete the scandal caused by a writer of popular songs, to the extent of entering the Social Register, be it more--then fell is the fortune of all but fatuity. For though when Greek meets Greek, they eat rice pilaf, when prize fighter marries debutante, the public eats the pudding, not alone of publicity, but of despair...
...death struggle it twisted its head around and finally fell with the head partly under its own body. After the body tissues had decayed, the bones fell apart and settled irregularly in the swamp muck, so that the several parts of the skeleton are not now in their proper relation to each other. This explains the peculiar relation of tusks and vertebrae which led at first to the idea that there were two large animals in the same deposit...
...yard pass from Ryan to Shanahan accounted for the next Purple score and then Saltonstall blocked the try for point. Early in the third quarter Kittredge dropped a 40-yard punt from the toe of French and Clark, the rangy lineman, fell on the wandering pigskin within the enemy 20-yard line. Successive rushes took the ball to the three-yard line where Sayles fumbled and Daly recovered. A beautiful pass from behind the goal line put the ball in Healv's arms on the 18-yard marker. Another pass from Wise and Healy went to mid-field. Nothing could...