Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first movie, two years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket of water," recalled Woolley...
...tears fell, no voice was lifted in lament. No one recalled that, rather than face such a "humiliation" of national honor as abandonment of the seas to the belligerents of World War I, President Wilson asked the Congress on April 2, 1917 to declare war on Germany...
...several years well known athletes who, because of their outside activities, fell behind in their work were given free tutoring by the cram bureaus in return for their prestige and influence as drawing cards to bring in other students...
Putzi Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard in 1909, and was the subject of a great deal of comment when his offer of a gift of $10,000 to Harvard was rejected by the University. At that time he was still an intimate of Adolf Hitler, but he fell out with the Nazis a few years...
...Brooklyn saloon, Patrolman William Deichler did his favorite trick. Removing five bullets from his six-shooter, he said: "I'll pull the trigger and stop the bullet before it gets in my mouth." Patrolman Deichler lost count, pulled the trigger six times, fell dead...