Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowded department store, or to see her as she walks along the sunny avenue. Frequently she sorties unattended. Last week it was fortunate that her son, John, was at her arm when she snagged her heel in the pavement in front of the White House, slipped, nearly fell, before he caught...
Last November, Edwin Elmore, famed Peruvian publicist, once the revolutionary ally of José, fell a-quarreling with him in the doorway of a newspaper office at Lima. What occurred is uncertain. Poet José alleges that he, attacked by unarmed Publicist Elmore, drew his ever-ready revolver and killed in self-defense...
...band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song. Now to the Wahhabis of Mecca music is an offense to Allah, strictly forbidden in holy places. A little crowd of "fanatics" charged the cortege; the soldiers fired; 25 Wahhabis, some of them women and children, fell dead. King Fuad had lost his chance for the Califate...
...court with Borotra after having defeated a young Englishman and his lady. Borotra told the press that rheumatism in Mlle. Lenglen's neck and shoulders kept her from sleeping. "She is very ill ... she cries all the time . . . her mother cannot pacify her. . . ." Miss Ryan, too, fell ill, cancelled her matches. Nobody suggested that her illness was fantasy, for her temperature was only 101. Mlle. Lenglen...
Garibaldi: "His was an impulsive nature. He fell in love with his Anita at first sight. . . . His first words when they first met were: 'Thou oughtest to be mine'-which she incontinently...