Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Moody of Texas refused to lead the dry bloc. Indiana offered to shift to Smith after one ballot for Banker Evans Woollen. Ohio's Newton Diehl Baker, long a Smith endorser, sent word from Cleveland that a united party was the essential thing. Before the first gavel fell, the Smith managers were concerned lest their progress look like "steam-rollering." They confined themselves to distributing 50 cases of Smith literature and discussed the platform more than their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks...
...Chinese Republic was now becoming fictional as succeeding Presidents fell more and more under the dominance of War Lords such as Wu Pei-fu. But the Christian General had been all the while building up a personal army which is today unique in the ability of its troops to support themselves without looting-a common practice of other Chinese armies but punished by Marshal Feng with Death. Instead of an army of bandits, why not an army of artisans? The Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms...
...Houston's 700 Texan patriots could play a tune on a fife; one could beat a drum. They pooled their resources and sounded like a regimental band as Houston fell upon the Mexican Santa Anna on the bank of the San Jacinto. Texan vengeance for the massacre of the Alamo was satisfied; Texan independence was guaranteed; Sam Houston returned to lay out the city which bears his name, to become President of Texas, U. S. Senator when Texas entered the Union. It was an important battle hymn the fifer played over and over again at San Jacinto. Its lyric...
Unimpressed by the new importance of the Beaver Man, enemy of floods, angry rivers burst dykes, fell upon Arkansas and Missouri farmers. Hundreds scurried to the safety of high hills, driving kin and kine before them. In their wake came the flood waters of the White River, deluging 40,000 acres in Arkansas. Missourians fought the rising St. Francis, already claiming 25,000 acres, with the crest yet to come. Mississippi valley dwellers remembered 1927, wondered if the Beaver Man would help...
...Lion and the Mouse. "Father, I love her" and "Now I must act" fell on the ears of the audience at the Vitaphone's latest offering. They were uttered boldly and flatly by a weak-chinned young cinemactor named William Collier Jr. He played the son of Wall Street's rich and cruel lion (Lionel Barrymore). The girl he loved (May McAvoy) was the daughter of an innocent judge that the lion had ruined financially. The throbbing drama, an old one, was arranged so that the end was happy. It was an unfortunate vehicle for the Vitaphone...