Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, Raymond Songen, 17, showed his pet pigeons to his friend Frank Leonard, 16. Frank, who also kept pigeons, called Raymond's birds "a flock of klucks." Raymond hit Frank on the jaw. Frank fell dead...
...overproduction of silver in the U. S., Mexico. Then, too, India, once a great Chinese silver buyer, has been selling instead of buying. France and Belgium in the last two years have sold 40,000,000 ounces of silver. Inevitably the Chinese market was flooded, the price of silver fell. Inevitable too was the bearish selling of Chinese speculators last week. But silver-men opined last week that in spite of its new low, silver faced no crisis. Optimists even prophesied that Chinese silver would again chink to better prices...
...Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits in the City Hall...
...they fell to, their left feet planted in blue chalked squares. Each flailed six times and the round ended. The doctors stepped out, examined their...
...again they fell to. The young, less experienced, saw his opponent's blade arch, flicker, fall. Cleanly the sabre skewered his face from nose to mouth. He stood motionless...