Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took with him, on the MacMillan expedition of 1923, the first short-wave set ever operated in the Arctic. On big home sets Zenith's earnings grew from $121,000 in 1925 to $1,109,000 in 1929. When grief overtook the radio business in 1929, Zenith fell with saving promptness into the pattern of retrenchment. A new midget radio was developed for the low-price market, the cabinet division was closed down, and President McDonald slugged its overhead. By the time the first light of Recovery was visible, however, Zenith had accumulated a deficit of $750,000. Then...
...duck pond of St. James's Park by a tall man in top hat and impeccable morning clothes who looked exactly like the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Irish yarn seemed all the more unlikely because several men were said to have been standing nearby when the child fell in, while the top-hatted rescuer had sprinted from the gravel walking path, vaulted over a low railing, waded rapidly into the duck pond and grasped the floundering child...
...deliberately misused the Red Cross for purposes of war. Original offender was Emperor Haile Selassie's redoubtable General Ras Desta Demtu, according to Dr. Hooper, who declared: "We were making a hurried retreat. Ras Desta Demtu commandeered a Red Cross truck and loaded it with ammunition. The truck fell into the hands of the Italians, and it was shortly thereafter that they decided to bomb Red Cross ambulance units...
...sculptors keep their eyes on the many fine arts committees which hand out the jobs of making America's monuments. Big assignments for sculpture come to U. S. artists by direct commission, through open competition or through competitions limited by invitation. Last week a handsome plum fell to Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, Manhattan sculptor famed for her medal designs, when her model won in a limited competition for a $100,000 Baltimore bronze of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. Still groggy from a sinus operation, Mrs. Fraser was cheered by her success, knew...
...plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show he suddenly shot his flaming breath at her, singed her precious beard...