Word: fell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of atheism and immorality the situation forebodes...
Divorced. Henry Coleman Drayton of Manhattan & Newport, socially prominent cousin of Yachtsman William Vincent Astor; by Mrs. Catherine Livingston Hamersley Drayton. Said Mrs. Drayton: "He fell asleep constantly at dinners, teas, bridge, the opera - everywhere we went to gether. ... I finally became hysterical...
...Skull and Bones, and thereby entered his charmed existence as the greatest Senior under the elms; there were only the dud explosions of the professional reformers or the envious non-quites to cry down an antique custom. Conditions charged in the next couple of decades, but yet it fell to the Junior Fraternities to take the blame. Tap Day might be a deadly twenty-four hours, but it came in the spring, when one reads of Blue teams only on page ten; the lesser elections blossom perversely in the antumn, and that is the time when football, and only football...
...Innocence. Here is Edith Wharton's story of the Countess Olenska, eloquently transferred to the stage by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The Countess Olenska returned to Manhattan, leaving her horrible Count in Europe. In Manhattan she met Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer...
...called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the Municipal Theatre and the fire inspector was making his round 15 minutes before curtain time. He tried this exit, examined that extinguisher. He touched a wrong lever and stage rain fell, beat upon the scenery until all was ruined, no performance possible...