Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...song, a sentiment, a story that will live forever. ..." "Jefferson Davis loved the Union with all the devotion of his heart. . . ." "Slavery was not the cause of the war. ..." "Our victory was essentially a victory: of the spirit. . . ." Such were a few of the many words that' fell upon the ears of 4,000 tottering Confederate veterans, their wives and progeny gathered last week in Charlotte, N. C., for their thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters of the gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great...
...eruption refused to flee because a passage in his will forbade it. Stubbornly, like angry rioters retreating from a row of bayonets, they backed through the village, the bubbling, smoking mass ever but a few yards away. Imperceptibly, it slowed down. The villagers watched fearfully. It stopped. They fell to their knees, crying thanksgiving to Heaven...
...that precise instant the federal cavalry dashed to the rescue. The rebels, foiled, fell back. It was all very much like cinema but such things do happen where Latins live...
...black cat prowled about a London shop. Its side brushed softly against a small silver statue of Cragadour, Lord Astor's favorite for the Epsom Derby. The statue trembled, fell. Next day, all England heard of the incident. The next night the statue was stolen. Throughout England filtered a whispered nervous doubt...
...Front changes. Now we see tanks come our way, squashing dead and wounded, we see a man with a hose spouting liquid fire. "He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front...