Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grounds. One listener not a member of the National Union was Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, onetime Wichita, Kans. automobile accessories dealer, now chiefly interested in promoting peace by means of sudden dramatic appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street to impress convening Democrats with his slogan: "Feathers Instead of Bullets." Half-naked Mr. Hockaday next burst into the Washington office...
...thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning, she swore, to toss self and child over the edge. She fainted: the child fell alone...
Last week the pleasant opportunity of being helpful fell to the banking house of Calvin Bullock. The aging founder, who got his start in Denver and then branched east to Manhattan, did not attend the SEC hearing, sending instead his husky, handsome son, Hugh Bullock. A few years out of Williams (Class of 1921), Son Hugh opened what has since grown into the head Bullock office in Manhattan. He married a cousin once removed of Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot, an attractive, honey-haired socialite who helped found the Academy of American Poets, which gives balls and raises money...
...Cartersville, Ga. Negro Pinkie Frazier climbed a 102-ft. chimney, gibbered at 20,000 onlookers, threatened would-be rescuers with bricks. Cried a Negro preacher before Pinkie fell to his death: "You sho' is nearer Heaven than you'll ever be again...
Harvard's score came in the first minute of the second period, when Melien, crimson guard broke through to block Mattlage's kick. The ball rolled back into the end zone and win Jameson fell on it for the touchdown. Jerome's kick for the extra point was blocked...