Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Needless to say, the authority for this legend is nebulous. Another version has it that a white standard upon which the hero Osman fell was stained with his blood into the famed device. His scimiter, on which he lay, produced the crescent; similarly a diadem, crushed beneath him, prevented the blood from staining a white star-shaped patch...
...Montevideo, the child of a man named Ramon Perez fell ill of pneumonia. Señor Perez sought the aid of one Dr. Lois, who treated the baby for a month. It died. Ramon Perez sharpened his knife and went to the doctor's house. The medico was not there. He had gone to the drug store. Señor Perez strode into the crowded shop, walked up to the doctor, stabbed him to death...
Doorman Johnson smiled his ivory smile. One of his fists moved forward a few inches. Mr. Cohen fell to the ground, spat out two teeth, screamed for a policeman...
...American students other than the Rhodes scholars few remain at Oxford for the full course of three years. Modern Oxford is frankly disappointing to many Americans, for it is changing rapidly from a quaint town to a large and noisy one. The hand of the nineteenth century fell heavily upon its heritage of beauty and atmosphere, and the twentieth is no kinder...
...little grey-haired widow, Mrs. Bessie Ellinger, Janitress of three Manhattan tenements, heard loud cries in one of her hallways, rushed in to find a quivering taxi-driver being beaten by three bandits. Moved by the wretch's groans, she fell upon his attackers from behind. They fled to the empty cab but Bessie Ellinger leaped on the running board. Holding on with her arm through the window of the cab door while the knaves pounded her hand and twisted her fingers to make her let go, she drew a police whistle from her apron pocket and blew...