Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Boland had been visited by His Majesty's Vice Consul John Innes who assured her that so long as she retained and exhibited her British passport she would be safe. Just before Bilbao fell, retreating Anarchists accused Miss Boland of having packed her bags, explaining that this was a sign of Rightist sympathies and that they were finishing off all such "traitors." She showed them her British passport. Tearing it up before her eyes, they proceeded to slay Governess Boland, a crime to which numerous Spanish witnesses testified...
...29th. Sam Snead dismayed his opponent by blasting the ball 300 yd. at the eleventh, easily won 5 & 4. Denny Shute finished all even with young Sam King. Manero was defeated by Cotton and Nelson lost to little David Rees. By this time defense of the Ryder Cup fell to Gene Sarazen and again Crumley's proved the crucial point. Coming to the 34th hole 1 up on Percy Alliss, Sarazen proceeded to drive into the deep trap. As Captain Hagen excitedly chewed a cigaret on the sideline, Sarazen heroically lifted his ball safely over the bunker...
...General William Henry Harrison for the relief of General Hull at Detroit and about 1,500 British and Indians. The Americans arrived at the River Raisin Jan. 18 and dispersed a small British force. Three days later the British returned, found the Americans asleep, with no sentries posted, and fell upon them, killing some 150 and taking the rest prisoners. "Remember the Raisin" became a battle cry for the remainder of the War of 1812. Michigan Melee...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...
...laconic statement that, for the benefit of fishermen, 2,200 sea lions had been killed during a three-week cruise. The Givenchy'?, crew used rifles (borrowed from the Navy) instead of machine guns, because a certain amount of sharpshooting is necessary. The carcasses were left where they fell...