Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...siege went on hour after hour, the baffled crowd began to yap and howl like hounds at a treed possum. Tear gas fumes were whiffed away by a sharp breeze. Hurled torches fell short of their mark. Then, early in the sixth hour, a State trooper took off his shirt, soaked it in gasoline, inched up to an outbuilding, lighted the shirt, tossed it into the shed. Up it blazed and the breeze swept the flames across to the house. The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar...
...booted out as Vice Chancellor, his private army was ordered disbanded and he lost the leadership of the Fatherland Front. Angry and vengeful at this sudden turn of affairs, he went to the Vienna South Station, entrained for Rome. Scarcely had his train pulled out than the final insult fell: by order of bespectacled Federal Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg the swashbuckling Prince was made Patron of the Fatherland Front's Mother's Help Section...
Thereafter Egypt's King Fuad refused to recognize the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, stopped the grain and money gifts to Mecca. The valuable Egyptian pilgrim traffic to Mecca fell off sharply. Last month, just before King Fuad died, King Ibn Saud maneuvered Egypt's then Premier Aly Maher Pasha into new negotiations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. From his deathbed Fuad, also anxious to patch the quarrel since he still hoped to be named Caliph of all Islam,* fostered the secret negotiations...
...Florence Evans Dibble is a friendly, blue-eyed member of a prominent Boston banking family who fell in love with horses 20 years ago when presented with one by her Cambridge physician. Endowed with independent means, she bought more horses, persuaded one-time wealthy Horseman Thomas Fay Walsh to help her pick the best. First important Dibble acquisition was Flowing Gold, who set a record for saddle horses by winning 18 championships in one year. Six years ago Mrs. Dibble purchased a 2,400-lb. cream-&-red coach called Valiant, built 75 years ago in France for the late William...
...study such intricate maneuvers as the King's gambit, the Alekhine defense. Busiest spectators were waiters who brought the players sandwiches, pitchers of milk or coffee. A scheduled exhibition between a 97-year-old player and a ic-year-old failed to take place when the oldster fell down in his home day before the match...