Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northampton over Easter. Her absence was not allowed to interfere with egg-rolling on the White House lawn, annual Easter diversion of Washington's when-we-were-very-young people. In Northampton, Mrs. Coolidge had a thrilling escape when she almost stepped on a live trolley wire that fell upon the street...
...ended when Il Duce backed up his speech by suppressing all non-Fascist youth organizations, including the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts. Therefore it behooved the Vatican to explain, last week, that no quarrel had ever existed. The task of tidying up and if possible effacing the whole incident fell to a remarkable man: Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, editor of the news organ which speaks for the Vatican, L'Osservatore Romano (The Roman Observer...
There are 30 obstacles in the Grand National-streams, fences, dry ditches, wet ditches, walls, hurdles, ditches and fences combined. Only one horse fell at the first jump. At the fourth jump Sprig turned a somersault and two other horses fell on him. The field went...
Beecher's Brook was the next obstacle, a wide stream with a hidden takeoff. Coyote fell here. Freddy Guest's Koko fell into the ditch head first and Amber-wave, one of the favorites, fell after him. The rest were all closely bunched with Billy Barton, Darracq and Bright's Boy out in front. The eighth jump is the Canal Turn, a thorn fence five feet nine inches high with a six-foot ditch on the take-off side and an 18-inch guard rail in front of the ditch. Eighteen horses fell as if a machine...
...killed. "I saw the deer drinking from a little slough. Then the police car drove up and two men got out. One had a rifle. He fired a shot and struck the deer in the foot. The deer staggered up a little knoll. He fired again and it fell. Then he walked up and shot it through the head as it lay writhing on the ground," said another witness...