Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin is a first cousin of Rudyard Kipling. At the poet's house he met his invaluable Wife Lucy. Together they fear God to the point of never reading Sunday papers. From the Prime Minister's lips once fell the priceless phrase, possible only in England: "Having talked with people who read the newspapers on the Sabbath, I am of the opinion...
Carter also told of the Expedition's nearly losing half their sled dogs when three of them fell sixty-five feet down a crevasse. None of the dogs was in the least injured, however...
...into his church. Though the charges were dropped, Baptist Eskridge brooded. Other friends said he drove furiously around Orange all one night. Next day Police Chief O'Reilly was standing on a street corner. An automobile whizzed by. From it barked a shotgun. Orange's police chief fell dead...
...McDowell was a devout Episcopalian. He preferred to operate on Sundays so that the prayers of the patient and friends would guide his knives, forceps and needles. For extra heavenly help during the death-defying operation on Mrs. Crawford, he waited for Christmas Day which that year fell on Sunday...
...ranks of the nobility. The livest sections of Author Chamberlin's history are to be found in his descriptions of the collapse of the Romanov autocracy, "one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents and documents to prove how little the ruling class understood what was happening, and to suggest the excitement and good nature of the revolution. Only after the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional Government and the seizure...