Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Katsura. founder of the Kensei-kai (the present Government party), who made him Vice Minister of Finance but allowed him entirely to determine the policy of that department while himself holding the title of Finance Minister as a mere adornment to that of Premier. When the Katsura Government fell, he entered the House of Peers,* became Finance Minister. While serving in this post he associated himself with the great Viscount Kato, then Foreign Minister; and together they fostered the policy of bringing Japan into the War on the side of the Allies. Such is the status of Premier Reijiro...
...Judiciary Committee. When the resolution for the 18th Amendment was in Congress it was of course referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Committee voted for it, and Chairman Volstead, as was his duty, reported it. After the Amendment was ratified, an enforcement act had to be drafted. That again fell to the Judiciary Committee, and Mr. Volstead as its chairman drew up the act and then reported it. So his name was attached to it?and so he became famous...
Suddenly all eyes returned to M. Malvy. He seemed to totter and to be feebly protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...
...overloaded train jolted upon a poorly fastened rail, there came a rending crash. A car teetered sickeningly, fell to the bottom of the river. Two other cars slithered and hung pendent from the cliff?below them a 190-foot clear drop...
...waters of the Rhine closed over the fateful Ring; swaggering Siegfried, murdered, burned on a giant pyre, Brünnhilde with him; Walhalla flamed red in the sky and, greed punished, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, fell last week on the first performance of the season of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, stupendous finale of the Nibelungen Ring, fifth of the Wagner matinees. Nanny Larsen-Todsen, recovering from an illness, sang the difficlut music of Brünnhilde, creditably. Michael Bohmen, big bass also billed as "indisposed," was sinister, impressive, magnificent; Friedrich Schorr, superb as Gunther; Rudolph...