Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three flayers who fell upon Karl Busch in your issue of Dec. 28 surely went the limit. Especially reprehensible was the one who inquired for Mr. Busch's address so as to be able to set the American Legion on him! As if the American Legion consisted of a mob of rowdies ready and waiting for a "lynching...
...appointment was not made. As "Little Hsu" continued to wait for his train, a shot rang out through the darkness and he fell dead. The next day General Lu Chengwu, son of the man whom "Little Hsu" had murdered at Tientsin, blazoned abroad a proclamation that he had at last avenged his father...
...first demure applause rippled over the throng; then as the Pope neared in a soft sway the faithful fell to their knees, crossed themselves, received the Pope's blessing as he passed, his left hand holding a lighted candle, his right, with two fingers extended, gesturing over the heads of his children. So passed the glorious personage gowned in white and gold,* crowned with the jeweled triple tiara, with the Papal pectoral cross hung from his neck...
Attention! The band fell into place; gendarmes along the rue de Faubourg St.-Honoré stood stark, forcibly restraining Parisians crowded against the cordons in hopes that there would fall upon them in blessing the bright eyes of Cardinal Cerretti as he sat beside His Eminence Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, as they were trundled along in the state coach, accompanied by two squadrons of cuirassiers, to the crowning...
...magazine was netting $100 a week. He bought everything?paper, printing, salaries?"on time," and collected $95,000 to advertise some more. Munsey told it later: "The very audacity of it all gave me credit, and more and more credit all the while. But merciful heavens, how the bills fell due! The cry from in town and out of town, from...