Word: fell
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George Downing, fell into the hands of the Crown. In 1732, George II offered No. 10 to Sir Robert Walpole, usually regarded as the first modern Prime Minister.* Sir Robert accepted the offer of the Premiership in perpetuity and took up his residence there in 1735, seven years before he resigned and became the Earl of Orford...
...crude satire on U. S. society which, whatever it is, is what it is and at that not vastly different from other societies. What, it may be asked, is the use of the corps diplomatique straining its brains and buttons to preserve the international amenities when at one fell blow they are violated without pomp or ceremony by a pictorial incitement to popular mutiny. It remains a shining platitude that all the efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face of the deft strokes...
...Premier mounted the tribunal. Silence of death fell upon the Senate. In clear tones, he defended his fiscal policy, accused former Governments of causing disguised inflation by contracting loans and exhausting the lending resources of the country. He complained of a conspiracy to oust him from office and ended on the note: "I have done my duty. In judging me, you must recognize that I have done my duty." He stepped from the tribunal...
When Premier Herriot fell from the grace of the Senate, last week (TIME, Apr. 13), for secretly pursuing a policy of inflation, U. S. President Calvin Coolidge took what was called an "unprecedented step": he paid tribute to the fallen Premier...
...morning when two police captains entered the Lampoon Building, forbade further sale of the current issue, and threatened confiscation of all copies on the newsstands, Members of the Lampoon board rushed out and, only a little ahead of the police, themselves withdrew all but five or six copies, which fell into the hands of the police. In their eagerness to confiscate every available copy of the Lampoon parody of the Literary Digest the police took over a supply of the genuine Digest, but soon returned them. Speaking of the search conducted by the police agents, Felix, the proprietor...