Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incredible increment. Wilting suddenly before old circumstances, Jason let himself be married to Geneva Ellwood, empty heiress. Out of this irresolution came, for Geneva, insanity and suicide; for him, drink, failure, consumption. Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good hands, was disembarrassed of her child, went back to Pedlar's Mill with her secret intact, her spirit erect. She beat back the broom sedge, brought prosperity from barren ground. She beat back memory, married out of respect, and for convenience, gained a strong contentment without love...
...battle before he succumbed to the intercollegiate champion on the sixteenth green, 3 up and 2 to go. Captain Hodder gave Wattles an even harder fight and carried the match to the seventeenth hole. In the foursomes Mapes and Hodder played the best golf of the afternoon, although they fell before Wattles and Ordway on the nineteenth hole. Barnum and Bohlen conquered Tuttle and Haviland of Yale in a very closely contested match which they ended on the seventeenth...
...score of 71 for the Westchester Biltmore Country Club course, which has only been surpassed by Hagen. The remainder of his team, composed of Wattles, Flinn, Ordway, Haviland, and Tuttle, present a powerful array, which has only been defeated this year by Princeton. Although the latter fell before the University onslaught, it would be unwise to take much stock in the comparative scores, since they are still more undependable in golf than in any other sport...
...smother at the first turn, flashed a horse ("Singlefoot," screamed Coach Rockne), fell back before another ("Captain Hal," howled Owner Kaiser). Where was Quatrain? Waiting for an opening. Where was Kentucky Cardinal? Nowhere. Another horse was out now, pressing at the withers of the gallant Captain Hal, at his shoulder, at his muzzle, was clearly bumping himself like a black witch rabbit. Only one man now believed that Quatrain had a chance: he was Sande, bent to the shoulder of Flying Ebony. He could outrun Captain Hal he thought, but Quatrain was the best horse in the race, the horse...
...Coney Island, N.Y., one Harry Mann went for a ride on a Giant Coaster. On the rear seat sat a male and female, lovingly. Curious about their activities, Mann drew a mirror from his pocket, stood up in his seat, tottered, fell under the rear wheels, was ground to death...