Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are but two explanations of the seeming unregeneracy of this Prince Hal. Royal families have always been reckless. William the Conqueror fell to his death from a horse which had stepped on a hot cinder. King Edward followed the hounds hard, and killed single-handed an Indian tiger which had attacked his elephant. George 11 was small and choleric, but he rode obstinately into the cannon balls at Dettingen. The Prince has precedent, and a family. His three brothers and Princess Mary's Master Lascelles constitute a large royal family; he does not see the necessity of looking...
...never been defeated in an election, the " grand old man," the "Norseman," the "Viking," or?as he liked best to be called" Farmer Nelson " died aboard a Pennsylvania Railroad train on April 28; Senator Knute Nelson, 80 years of age, and senior Senator from Minnesota fell dead of heart disease as he was going from Washington to his home in Alexandria, Minn...
There were no divots or sliced tee shots when England and America found themselves bunkered on the first hole of a long struggle at Boston in 1775. The British approach fell short, if memory serves; General Gage picked up and returned to Boston. That was nearly 150 years ago. One hundred and thirty-one years later the British again suffered a defeat, this time at the hands of Walter J. Travis, when, at Sandwich, he sailed away with the British Amateur Golf Cup. From that day to this British Golf has rolled America in the dust of British bunkers...
...intent of the book is not considered; if from the purest and most moral motives it used an obscene word it comes under the law. The book is not to be judged as a whole but shall be condemned for a single passage out of its context. In one fell stroke this clause would outlaw the Bible, Shakespeare, the Greek and Roman classics, Swift, Chaucer, the whole of Restoration comedy, Milton, Fielding, Voltaire, Flaubert, Goethe, Balzac, the writings of the early Christian fathers, Martin Luther, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the dictionary...
Huge advertisements of Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan for May feature an allegedly true story entitled Mercy. "One day a chilling shadow fell," says the blurb. "While Mrs. Wills, with her two small sons, was away on a visit to her parents, the Reverend Robert N. Wills disappeared-and with him the pretty dark-eyed organist!" Then the ad takes on bolder type: "A story of a once prominent minister and his life expiation for a moment's madness." "A story that never got into the newspapers because a whole city held its secret in- violate." Ray Long edits...