Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monet still hopes to paint again, and to complete the great mural design of water lilies, to be hung in the orangerie of the Tuileries, upon which he was working when blindness fell upon...
During the War she fell into the hands of the Germans, but Wilhelm gave orders that .she was not to be disturbed and she received everything to which she was accustomed...
...always inseparable. Then the page turns back and we see them from boyhood on?friends in youth?then separated?then casually coming together again?the interwoven skeins of the two lives from youth to age. Oddities of temperament, accidents, wives interrupted the friendship?no theatrical Damon-and-Pythias sacrifices fell to the lot of either, exactly? but the friendship endured. Why, precisely ? Neither could have defined all the reasons for it. Neither tried. But it was the root of their lives. An excellent novel, original in theme...
...Metropolitan open golf championship, Eastern equivalent of the Southern and Western opens, fell to Bob MacDonald, of Chicago. Though virtually all the professionals that gathered for the National championship the week previous at Inwood drove off for a try at the Metropolitan title, little spectacular golf was played. By missing a one-yard putt on the home green MacDonald ran into a tie with Jim Barnes of Pelham, at 295. In the play-off Mac-Donald shot 70, three under par, and defeated Barnes by ten strokes. MacDonald won the same title in 1921, and lost it in a similar...
Born in a wagon among the musty properties of a band of strolling players on the outskirts of Venice, she grew to womanhood behind the flickering footlights of mean country stages. At the age of 24 she fell violently in love, lost her lover, then burst suddenly into world-wide fame. Taking Rome by storm in 1885, she toured Europe 1886-92, coming to America...