Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quicksand. Theatrically, lawyers get themselves into the most disturbing jams. This lawyer fell in love with the woman whose husband he was defending on the charge of murder, only to find both man and wife members of a harsh crowd of criminals. Eventually he escapes from his dilemma by sending the wife to jail for five years and planning to have the sentence quickly cut down. Such proceedings call for no small amount of insight and ingenuity to make them credible. A good deal has been supplied, but not enough. The play works itself up to a pitch of considerable...
...North Bergen, N. J., six dogs led by one "Wolfe," espied William Kendy, eight years old, with several companions. When one of these companions threw a stone toward them the dogs loped toward their assailants. The assailants ran away except for William Kendy who fell down. The six dogs quickly pounced upon him, bit him twenty bloody times; then, when policemen came in answer to his screech-ings, loped away...
...bitch, the property of a doctor, ran away or was stolen by a motorist. Boys and girls in the children's ward of the hospital moaned with grief. Having escaped from her abductor, or having decided of her own will to return to the Kings County Hospital, Joan fell through the ice into a pond on her way home. A policeman, attracted by her noise, pulled Joan out of the ice and returned her to the bedridden children, who were delighted...
...What was your most thrilling ring experience," he was asked Sharkey finished tying on his gloves and said. "There are no thrills in boxing," then fell to punching the bag till it sounded like a riveting machine...
...look upon their northern neighbors as a part of the financial fatherland, whereas Australia, with her vulnerable position in case of a great Pacific conflict, and her slightly rosy tint of political radicalism, is distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted the British security holders from Commonwealth levies. Although 1926 saw this dispute ironed out to London's satisfaction, the successful Queensland issue of 1922 at New York...