Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly then the big gold star was ripped from the cap of Marshal Tukhachevsky, the four red pips from the collars of his colleagues, and all eight of them fell dead before the acrid volleys of a firing squad. Official Pravda wrote their obituary: "Dogs die like dogs. There is no place for such murderers in the Soviet scheme of things...
Anyone seeing a well-dressed lady step out of her limousine to feed biscuits to four dogs playing in a vacant lot, might think she was a queer old busybody but a kindly one. If the four dogs all fell sick that evening, three of them fatally, the witness might well recall the old lady and tell the police, but still not doubt her kindness. If the old lady, in police court, explained that she was a great friend of animals, a contributor to humane societies, habitually solicitous of waifs and strays, she might be considered an unfortunate victim...
Four years ago Archbishop Mooney was recalled from Tokyo, apparently for reasons of secular diplomacy. The diocese of Rochester fell vacant and the Pope as signed Archbishop Mooney to fill it. Of larger import, however, was the fact that his fellow bishops soon made him a member of the administrative board, presently board chairman, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. That body launches and maintains such "Catholic Action" projects as the Legion of Decency and is the sounding-board of the U. S. hierarchy, lately stipulating to lay Catholics that it and it alone may speak the policies...
Illinois insurance laws have been flayed for years by insurance experts. Up to 1933 the enforcement was worse than the laws. Officially entrusted to a special director of the Department of Trade & Commerce, control over insurance companies frequently fell into the hands of lawyer-politicians who were not above doing a good turn at the expense of policyholders. The extent to which Illinois had become an insurance playground became abruptly clear in 1932, when eight of the nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash...
...father heard his son yell, got there to find him knifed and bleeding to death on the ground. As the elder Sims bent over his son's body he was stabbed. He seized a .22 rifle and blazed away, pointblank. Mrs. LeMaster's son-in-law fell wounded. Somehow the daughter was stabbed in the breast. When the officers came, they arrested Mrs. LeMaster for the murder of Gordon Sims...