Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor of being one of the last scheduled visitors to White Pine Camp fell to Herbert J. Tily of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Dry Goods Association, and Lew Hahn, of Manhattan, its managing director. These two reported that Prosperity's fingers had touched the clothing industry throughout the U. S. C Visitors at Paul Smith's climbed a tree, one armed with a jar of jam. They were "bear-hunting," endeavoring to recapture Babe, a bear cub brought there ten days previously by a Detroit cinema man. Finally bruin was coaxed to captivity...
...time Dr. Gessler was standing on a little knoll near Leuthen, Saxony, with General Mueller, commander of the Saxon Reichswehr. A machine gun battery, using ammunition left over from the World War, was firing a barrage over their heads. Suddenly General Mueller clutched his side, fell dead. A bullet, its charge weakened by age, had fallen short...
...Vigorous and promising as a cadet at Warsaw, Kosciuszko was sent to Germany at Poland's expense to complete his military education. At 30, while tutoring some aristocratic young ladies, he fell in love with one of them and made to elope with her. Family retainers fell upon him, pinking him often and severely before they could eject him. He promptly came to the New World to heal his wounds of heart and body and to win his spurs in real action. With Washington and his colleagues he was at once popular and prominent. In 1783 Congress bestowed citizenship...
...pesetas General Silvestre flew into a raging fury. He cried that I was a robber. Then, before I knew what he was doing he struck me full in the face. The blow was so unexpected and so powerful that it knocked me to the ground. I fell, bleeding from the mouth. What could I do? There were Spanish soldiers everywhere. I had only a handful of my tribe with me. I only staggered to my feet and returned to my fellow-tribesmen. But within me there was kindled in that moment a terrific hatred of Silvestre and all Spaniards...
...Budapest, Bela Morvay, clown, put mad new touches upon his old familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...