Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition, their car loaded with provisions purchased by Mrs. Coolidge. The same sight was last week seen in the streets of Rapid City, as Mrs. Coolidge had again become her own housekeeper. For Miss Ellen Riley, who came out from Washington to act as housekeeper at the State Lodge, fell ill, was sent to Rochester, Minn., for an operation. Instead of appointing a temporary successor, Mrs. Coolidge herself assumed the duties of directing the State Lodge domestics. She began her new work by rising early and picking a bouquet of wild flowers for the State Lodge breakfast table...
Many years ago in Cuba a heavy chandelier fell on the Governor General's head. It was said that the effects of this accident never entirely wore...
...Peoria, Ill., one Mrs. Louis Schaer, suspected of shoplifting, quietly permitted the store detective to search her person for stolen articles. Nothing was found. Next she called over the floorwalker who had accused her and slapped his face so well that he fell to the floor...
...again he stops his story to look at them, trying always to fit the horror and immensity of their tasks into some scheme. Shaking light from the furnaces illuminates the stupid, pitiful anger of their faces. Author Walker describes "the look of the woman's eyes whose husband fell into a steel ladle and was melted down a year later- they didn't tell her, she found out afterwards - into an ingot...
Speeches numerous and lengthy fell into two classes, depending on whether the speaker did or did not represent the Federal Government. Of the latter sort was Mayor Thompson's address which termed the flood "an indictment of and challenge to the Federal Government," something which "might have been expected in China but not in the rich America with its boasted good government...