Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expert crime statistician and provide him with an adequate staff. ... It seems to me personally that murder should be our first consideration. We should find out all we can about murders in this country?not only how many there were, but wherein justice and the punitive agencies fell down, if they...
When she found herself the wife of a convict she suddenly felt the old yearning coming back. Her husband became in her eyes a hero; the other man was set aside while she helped her mate in trouble. Presently he was cleared and she fell into a vast embrace. The convict returned with a sigh to his carpet slippers...
After the final curtain fell on the first performance, Miss Pinchot and Lady Diana were called out again and again. Miss Pinchot, a slender, vigorous nun, was a rare contrast to the stolid Teutonic actress Sari Fedak, whose interpretation is more familiar to European audiences...
...Berlin's streets. In the offing, advancing threateningly, was the Stahlhelm, Monarchist men. The leader of the Republican Reichsbanner fired shots into the air with the object of dispersing the Monarchist Stahlhelm. Unable to stop the swarms of glaring Monarchists, he fired into the crowd. A Stahlhelmer fell dead. In a flash, both organizations were locked in painful, noisy, bitter conflict. Bashed-in noses, black eyes, shredded ears, large blue bruises were the wounds inflicted. The police, arriving speedily on the scene, added a number of cracked skulls to the casualty list. Quiet was eventually restored. The Republican Reichs...
Mile. Sion. Last year in July Mile. Sion, then 47, tried to swim the Channel, fell short by seven miles. What difference does the addition of a year make when one is 48 and an athlete? Mile. Sion determined to try again. Accompanied by a tug which contained, among others, Rival Harrison, she took off for Dover in the bright morning. Six hours after her start she was only nine miles from the pale cliffs. But against her, also, the tide turned; the undertow clutched at her thighs; the chill of the seas began to penetrate her courage. Once...