Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goethe's emotional nature craved the sympathy and love of woman, he needed the sympathy of love. Some of his greatest works were inspired by woman, though it is an absurd misconception of Goethe's nature and genius to maintain, as has been done, that he fell in love with the purpose of getting material and inspiration for his poetry...
...England's earthquake series, which she has been experiencing in mild instalments since September, 1924, was continued last week. Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory had predicted that the Merrimac Valley would be the region next disturbed, and sure enough, crockery fell, a crumbling chimney crashed, canned goods toppled from shelves in the general store at Ossipee, N. H., and court was suspended for five minutes. In neighboring towns folk ran to the streets to hear their old hills rumble. Then, the granite of New England being no more emotional than the people who dwell upon...
That evening the winds raged, the channels foamed and a deluge fell. The welcomers bought out the slicker, gum-boot and food supply of the isolated little resort and waited with the homing argonauts until the second day, clear and fine, permitted returning to Wiscasset for the postponed official ceremonies...
...Soria, Spain, Nacional Second, famed bullfighter, victor of numberless red duels, toyed with a weak sick old bull, mocked and mowed, flaunting his dexterity, finally despatched the animal, turned to bow before the great gallery- staggered, fell dead, struck on the temple by a thrown wine bottle...
...rectors and laymen, on assembling was obliged to elect a new President because the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann who held that post had been consecrated Bishop of Pittsburgh. So on the second day of the meeting, scheduled to last for 18 days, an election was held. The choice fell on the Rev. Dr. Ernest Wilmore Stires, who lately resigned as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan, and is now Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Long Island. The defeated candidate was Dr. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., supported by much of the conservative, high church element...