Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cumberland, Wis., Joe Hecht, 28, hooked a large bass, became so excited that he tangled his feet in the line, fell into the water, drowned...
...previous high was around 1900, when high-grade issues sold to yield something less than 4%. At that time the best opinion was that low interest rates would continue for the first two decades of the 20th Century. The experts were dead wrong. Interest rates rose and bond prices fell almost without interruption until the post-War depression. Through most of the 1920's bonds climbed steadily, then started to fall again when money tightened during the last purple days of the stockmarket boom. The present rise dates from 1932, bonds as usual leading actual industrial recovery...
...ashamed of his background. He sums up his youthful self as "part snob, part coward, part sentimentalist ... an unattractive personality." But he went up to Oxford with a reputation as a bright lad. His chances for a first-class degree went glimmering when, vacationing in Paris, he fell in love with a French cocotte. He spent two vacations with her, let her lure him into an engagement, then ran away. In Paris he also got the idea of starting a literary magazine called Rhythm, went back to London and started it. There he fell under the spell of blustering Frank...
...himself, waited for patients to come, it seemed a long wait. The family in whose house he boarded and had his office were a no-account lot. Beverly, pretty heiress of the town's tycoon, brought Chris his first patient-her dog. She and Chris quarrelled and fell in love immediately. Chris was too proud and poor to do anything about it, but Beverly wangled him the job of city doctor. When he got an appointment as surgeon at the hospital he had his hands full. Women found him attractive. Katie, his landlady's slatternly but provocative daughter...
...swampy circumstance was too much for them. Rachel fell in love with a fey young farmer, Bill, who left her to mind the place while he lived a masculine life of hunting and drinking. And Cully found he wanted Rachel, his half-aunt, more than anything else. Rachel was flattered but firmlv faithful. When at last Bill came home and found Cully there, they had a fight, and Bill was killed. Rachel was going to turn Cully in to the sheriff, but Old Man Roper had better sense...