Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the same man, now 53 and round as a butter tub, dug a pit into which the utility tycoons of the U. S. fell and writhed in despair...
...their education,† both went to Carthage Academy. After Carthage, young Harlow worked for a year as a newshawk, retains to this day a journalistic sense which makes his books (Flights from Chaos, Star Clusters) popular, his lectures non-soporific. At 20 he entered the University of Missouri, fell under the spell of Astronomer Frederick Hanley Scares and published, when he was a junior, a juicy paper on "Astronomy in Horace" with no less than 46 references to the works of that Latin poet. After a year of post-graduate work he went to Princeton as a research fellow...
...pride by plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed him on the spot. When he fell in love a rival tried to take advantage of his sentimental state by robbing him. Hardin merely dropped his money to the floor, then killed the rival when he stooped over to pick it up. Not so deadly a shot as "Wild Bill" Hickok or the great King Fisher, Hardin...
Jenkins had gone to school to Henry James, put her down as a writer of subtlety and power. Last week Author Jenkins offered a novel that gave proof, at least, of her versatility: a breezy little romance about a schoolteacher who fell in love with a cinemactor...
...told no anecdotes about admirers, or humorous scrapes in which she herself appeared as a figure of good entertainment value; she did not take out her mirror and gaze, spellbound, at her own reflection; there was nothing consciously graceful about any of her gestures." This paragon of modern virtue fell in love with Lionel...