Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While many a U. S. maid and matron dived beneath tea tables, shrieked, the embattled Deputies potshot at each other from opposite sidewalks. Onetime Governor Garillo of the state of Tabasco fell at once, mortally wounded in the face. Col. Andres Garcia was killed outright. Others were wounded...
Last week in London his mother, 81, slipped, fell, broke her thigh. Her two daughters, both invalids, were unable to go to her aid. Since Mrs. Shackleton is all but destitute, has no servant, she lay upon the floor for some hours until a friend chanced to hear her cries...
Last week, bowling along in its perennial path through the heavens, the Earth fell in with some company that it always enjoys on or about Aug. 10-a shower of meteors from the constellation Perseus, probably remnants of "Tuttle's Comet of 1862," now disintegrated. Some of the shrewd little two-legged organisms that scurry hither and thither on the Earth's surface had known of the event in advance and were watching what they call their "northwest" skies to see the meteors come whizzing into terrestrial atmosphere. The latter, being thicker than interstellar ether, caused the hurtling...
Plaster. A month ago Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris shot D. E. Chipps to death (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Last week on Sunday, while the pastor shook the rafters with his transcendental, logical harangue, the plaster fell on his hearers, injuring two seriously, 200 slightly, the pastor...
...individual beside her. Would he be good enough to state his profession? "Potztausend!" cried Father Ederle, looking hungrily at the gaunt official, "I am a butcher. . . ." He had not, on the long slow trip, behaved like one. As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, "Pop" Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer), Helmi (Egyptian swimmer), Miss Cannon (another U. S. Channel aspirant) and one Timson (Boston swimmer). In the bow was a brass band. On the tug's side was a great white...