Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock was stopped and the members gathered together and sang Merrilly We Roll Along, The Old Oaken Bucket, Sweet Adeline, My Country 'Tis of Thee. Speaker Gillett announced that the session was at an end, and wished the members "pleasant vacation." "And reelection!" shouted the members as the gavel fell...
...Guild Hall functions, the Prince of Wales escorted the fair Catholic, Mafalda. Overlooking the fact that the occasion demanded such attention, the people, conscious only that the reprobate bachelor Prince appeared with a pretty girl of the right age and the same rank, fell violently to gossiping of an imminent betrothal. But the Prince of Wales remained his misogamist self...
...intense heat made the atmosphere tremulous and wavy. At the end of three hours the heart, which was unusually big remained unconsumed. The frontal bone of the skull . . . fell off, and the brains literally seethed, bubbled and boiled. . . . Byron could not face the scene. . . . The village children . . . told each other that from these bones, once they had reached England, the dead man would come to life...
...rocked him for a moment. Gibbons, stung, concealed his trouble and soon counterattacked. From that point until the end the bout was more like a race than a fight. Carpentier, in full retreat, was near a knock-out in the ninth and tenth rounds. In the ninth he fell without being hit and claimed an injured leg. At this point, Gibbons noticeably let up in his attack when Carp seemed pleading verbally with him in the last two rounds. Unsportsmanlike. Gibbons was decidedly the favorite of the crowd. In the ninth, when Georges fell and claimed an injured leg, there...
...unnatural; it is most embittering to have a benevolent idea fail, and fail solely because the object of one's benevolence is too unworthy to appreciate what is being done for him. But at the same time, life would be tiresome without its setbacks. Instead of submitting to the fell clutch of circumstance, Sir Henry should call up his fighting spirit and try again. Generalities cannot be drawn from single cases...