Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back on her yacht Winona, Journalist Stillman renewed her ancient feud with photographers by threatening to hurl one bold fellow into the waters of Long Island Sound. Plates and crockery, not threats, had been her weapons last July, when she fell upon the persistent, scoop-seeking villains of the press at her son's wedding. On the Winona Fraulein Rasche, an interested spectator, lumbered to her cabin, rested...
...phrases "birth control" and "human stock" fell harshly on the ears of Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland. He promptly seized an occasion to set forth the traditional view of his Church. Said he, to a graduating class of nurses at the Charity Hospital training school: "In older times we referred to humans as the human race, but according to this foundation we are being classed with the animals on the farm, the cow, the horse, the mule-perhaps with the alligator and the snake. . . . According to this foundation, I have no right to be born...
What the Cleveland bishop said, every Catholic prelate has in some manner paraphrased. Memorable was a 1925 speech of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York: ". . . By such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of immorality the situation forebodes. . . . Birth control is heralded because the poor . . . are largely responsible for defectives. Never was there cast . . . a more offensive insult. Defectives, physical or mental, have immortal souls, redeemed by the blood of Christ. The forces of evil . . . would exploit the bodies and ruin the souls of the children of God." (TIME...
Officials proving uncommunicative, it was permissible to conjecture as to the motive behind the unexpected move. The German iron and steel industry, it was remembered, has made a startling recovery since the War, has approached pre-War production levels. Pig iron production, which fell from 1,374,400 tonsf in 1913 to 404,700 in 1923, rallied to about 1,100,000 in 1927. Ingots and castings production in the same years dropped from 1,445,700 to 517,000, recovered to more than 1,300,000. Exports fell to 110,000,† rose in March...
...leaf turned over in honor of Hettie was quickly spattered with the blood of that worst of offenders, one who had struck a woman. And when later Lacy pitched himself into the free-for-all cattle wars of wide-open Arizona, his deserving victims fell thick and fast. Hettie's family, innocent immigrants to Arizona, had engaged a slick cattle thief as foreman of their ranch, and their cattle losses were climbing to the tens of thousands when Lacy, posed as a rustler himself, smartly unearthed the plots of rustling outfits, and plugged the treacherous foreman full of justice...