Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like Queen Mary of England (see p. 15), Mrs. Coolidge last week fell ill. A heavy cold sent her to bed with pain in her side and a trained nurse standing by. After four days, White House Physician James Francis Coupal reported her convalescent. The attack caused her to miss a state function for the first time in her two terms as White House hostess. President Coolidge alone conducted a formal dinner to Speaker Longworth of the House...
Ambassador Sthamer quietly documented his protest, last week, by producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
...transcendent is this achievement that the Chamber of Deputies fell meekly into line, last week, although for the past three weeks both the Radicals and Socialists have carried on a furious heckling debate to demonstrate that their political strength has not waned, on the eve of the Parliamentary elections this Spring...
...watched from Camp No. 3 know only this: that about 9.55.32 on that evening a sudden darkness fell about us. Twenty seconds later it was light again, but by then, as we now believe, Murgatroyd and McCarthy had walked into the elevator shaft...
...interior of Africa the fishing isn't much, so they tell elephant stories. The Uganda game department last fortnight told this one, protesting truthfulness. A hunter shot an elephant. It fell down a hill. Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps, died. Hunters rarely kill three elephants with one shot...