Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen, 89, first surgeon to operate successfully on cancer of the throat; at Philadelphia. He developed the science of laryngoscopy and taught most of the present specialists. When J. Ramsay MacDonald, onetime English Prime Minister, visited the U. S. last April and fell ill, Dr. Solis-Cohen attended him personally...
...Luray, Va., just before Christmas, a tree dropped a large branch on the head of one Fannie Broyles. Fannie Broyles fell down and lay very still. Her relatives found her, took her home, enclosed her body in a casket, took the casket to church, stood near it, sang funeral hymns. Before these had been finished, Fannie Broyles opened her eyes for one brief second. Soon she opened them again, waggled her hand and got out of her coffin. Afraid of being buried while alive, she had completely recovered from the blow that had stunned...
...Stamford, Conn., a large, stupid rooster saw a pile of fermented mash on the side of the road. After pecking and swallowing a large quantity of this mash the rooster fell over in the gutter, drunk. A motorist, thinking him dead, picked up the rooster and carried him home. Inside the house, the rooster's owner looked at the bird with disgust. "He's always getting like that," she said. The rooster winked one red eye, croaked, fell fast asleep...
...heard his name being called by the voice of Mrs. Bertha Turner. Excited, he twice whirled about on the roof top; she was not in sight. Suddenly he realized that the voice came from below; with a wild and silly hop he jumped over the edge of the parapet, fell five stories, died...
...Cunard Line would attract some of the great Canadian Pacific traffic of immigrants from England to Canada. The situation a few years ago would have induced a rate war between transportation companies. Twenty years ago such a general war took place. First class fares between New York and Liverpool fell to $22.00 a person-but for a very short time. With trans-Atlantic travel as vast as it is now the companies are too discreet to initiate such a contest...