Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trailer. The figure of a matronly woman appeared, sprang into the night. A tall, broad-shoulered man followed. Pell-mell down the dark hill they ran beside the rolling caravan. Then the woman jumped for the running board of the car to pull its brakes. She slipped, fell, lay groaning, while her distracted companion rushed to her side. The car rolled on, crunched solidly into a tree on the brink of the lake...
Last week from an attic at Andernay near Nancy, fear-stricken Armand Joseph Bolon was dragged into the light by French gendarmes who had been searching for him for 22 years. Bolon fell wounded in the first month of the War. His patriotism dimmed by this experience, he deserted in August 1914. Ever since, implacable deserter-hunters of the French Sûreté Nationale have been on his trail. Deserter Bolon, however, had adopted the brilliant ruse of simply going home, never stirring out of his father's attic. Neighbors who have been...
...unit was formed in 1906 prospered swiftly with the expanding U. S. motor industry. By the time it fell into the clutches of the Alien Property Custodian in 1917 it was an exceedingly valuable piece of property with a plant of its own in Springfield, Mass. For nearly a decade the U. S. company was in almost continuous litigation arising in part from the unsavory record of the Alien Property Custodian's office, in part from the re-entry of Robert Bosch into the U. S. market under his own name after the War. Legal question...
...took a normal, fashionable part in college activities, made the Lampoon, was cut from the CRIMSON, was head cheerleader during the football season of 1909, wrote the Pudding show, and consumed champagne and caviar at some of the best Boston deb parties. He went to New York, fell under the wing of Lincoln Steffens, became interested in the plight of labor, organized a gigantic labor pageant, was jailed for radical activities. Went to Mexico as war correspondent, made friends with Pancho Villa, saw the smoking ruins of the homes of Colorado laborers, went to Europe to cover the news...
...Francisco. "Very young indeed was I.'' she writes, "when the finger of the East reached out across the Pacific and touched me." No sooner had the East put the finger on her than her mother sent her to Germany to be educated. There she fell in love with a German prince (un-named), and was taken to Madrid, where she fell in love with a bullfighter. The impressionable young lady then returned to San Francisco, married, was almost killed in a train wreck on her honeymoon, got a divorce, hired a 70-ft. schooner...