Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down, down, down all last fortnight rain poured on the U. S. from Arkansas to Pennsylvania. In Missouri and Illinois it fell two inches at a time. On southern Ohio half a foot was dumped in 48 hours. Up, up, up last week rose the long, wide rivers of the Ohio and central Mississippi systems, the brown, frothy water creeping up the banks, lipping up the sides of the levees, spilling over the top and then surging and thundering into the river towns, killing 58 people, routing 550,000 from their homes, destroying millions of dollars worth of property...
...Grayson, head of the inaugural committee, wrestled with an obdurate President, trying to induce him to hold the inauguration in the dry chamber of the House. Noon came, and Franklin Roosevelt's term of office expired but not his tenacity. He had the last word as the curtain fell: "If they can take it, I can take it." Act III was the taking of the oaths. More than 20 minutes late the ex-President and ex-Vice President came out to the dripping inaugural stand. John Nance Garner was the first to make history. Senator Joseph T. Robinson administered...
Near Huntingdon. Clyde Davis, 35, fell out of an ambulance and drowned in the Obion River while taking his father to a hospital. Earl Kilgore. 35, was drowned when his car unset in a swollen creek. A drowned Negro was found in a Clarksville ditch. From Arkansas South-The Ohio basin's flood waters would not take full effect until this week...
After seeing "One In a Million," which stars Miss Henie, we were puzzled whether the plot resembled her own life history. When questioned she replied, "Well, yes, a little," but then her eyes fell on Henie, senior, and she vigorously shook her gorgeous blonde head, exclaiming "No, not at all." There was a story behind that, we felt sure, but before we could inquire further she was whisked away from the dressing table on which we were sitting, and hurried through the packed throng outside, Garbo-fashion...
...about the ed at Alice a few moments and then walked over to the sofa and took the notebook out of the hands of the weary girl. Alice saw the green light fade ever further and listened vaguely to the muttering of the Red Queen as she fell asleep...