Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Black's clipping reads, in part, as follows: "An animal owned by H. N. Smith of Montgomery, Ala., saved its master and itself from being bitten by a rabid dog by seizing the dog with its teeth and hurling it through the air. The dog fell into a well close by and was drowned...
Political observers recalled Mr. Slemp's "performance of 1924, when not a single colored delegate fell down on Mr. Coolidge at Cleveland." Some said that Messrs. Longworth and Slemp have decided that the President is out of the 1928 race, and they (Mr. Longworth as principal, Mr. Slemp as impressario) are in it. True...
...stroke was bold and probably judicious. For months the rival factions in the Chamber have played party politics while the franc fell-have displayed the acumen of drunkards gambling in a burning saloon. Not to stake all upon forcing some definite program to an issue, was to court more months of mad trifling while the franc collapsed. Moreover a precedent had been established for franc-saving-by-dictatorship only a few days before, when the Belgian Parliament buried its party differences, and all but unanimously conferred dictatorial power upon King Albert (See BELGIUM...
...Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased in number. He has soaked Texas evangelical prospects in a religious fervor approaching fanaticism. Dr. Norris drew a pistol; shot. Mr. Chipps fell. Dr. Norris had sent three bullets into him. He died in an ambulance...
...fell to supplying newpapers with literary parodies and burlesques, applying to his accumulation of old-world scholarship a shrewd and lively buffoonery, that evoked (at first) sniffs in England, amusement in Canada, guffaws in the U. S. He made marionettes of A, B and C in the arithmetic textbooks, pulling the strings with his left hand while he thumbed trade reports with his right. Between lectures on political science he cried out for laughing social philosophers, showing that, while Cardinal Newman had only asked for light, Charles Dickens had given it, and brazenly declaring that he would rather have written...