Word: fell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home of these Law School offices is one of the historic buildings of Cambridge. The land on which it stands was originally owned in 1635 by John Meane. Eventually the ground fell into the ownership of Meane's grandson. Jonathan Hastings, and the house was known as the Meane-Hastings House. Jonathan Hastings called himself "Yankee Jonathan" and is credited with originating the term "Yankee". Hastings' fourth son, John, inherited the homestead and owned it until the Revolution when it changed hands many times...
Anon came the fateful elections of 1922, but Mr. New never got so far as the elections. He was defeated in the primaries by Albert J. Beveridge who, in turn, fell before Samuel M. Ralston at the election. But then the famed Mr. Fall resigned the portfolio of the Interior, and Postmaster General Work was shifted to his post, leaving a place in the Cabinet for Mr. New. He took it. He held it. Recently, President Coolidge announced that he would remain after Mar. 4. He has a way of pleasing without resorting to any of the tricks...
...black from hat to shoes, her delicate, pretty, pale face appearing as fine chalk contrasted with charcoal. Under a searching cross-examination in a sympathetically inclined court where men and women sat silent with tears streaming from their eyes, she told her story: She and the young author fell in love, became engaged. The future threw wide its arms to receive them in happiness. She was successful, he was successful. Then came a tragic day when her fiance learned that he was suffering from incurable cancer and tuberculosis. All that was in Poland...
During the War, he was principal Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, an important position which kept him constantly in touch with virtually all the Entente political leaders. After the Armistice, he was one of Italy's chief representatives at the epoch-making Versailles Conference. Then fell to him probably his most difficult diplomatic mission: he was appointed Ambassador to Germany...
...broken down completely. She supplicated and prayed, as parents pray, as you and I pray, to the gods on high when the dearest of our children lies in the clutches of grim death-to her master, arbiter of her destiny and, to her, as omnipotent in this crisis as fell Death himself, but all to no purpose. "His adamant heart did not melt. The master completed the transaction." Nepal is about the size of Florida, contains about 5,500,000 people and is an entirely independent country on the north frontier of the Indian Empire. The Maharaja...