Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly the whole craft disintegrated, spilling men, women, children amid falling fragments. Part of the fuselage landed on a worker's house in Moscow's outskirts, wrecked it from roof to cellar. Wings, motors, equipment, bodies and parts of bodies fell far & wide. Of the 48 on board, all were killed. Also killed was the pilot of the little training plane...
...With a German named Wrede and a Russian named Roubin, he was arrested at Taito, Formosa, because their ketch The Flying Dutchman was blown ashore suspiciously near two Japanese war boats in the Taito harbor. This looked to the Japanese like a real threat but it soon fell apart and the three were fined and released...
...marshal named McKenna bargained with a Washington taxi driver to take them to suburban Maryland Club Gardens and back for $2.50. Thirsty Representative Cannon & friend strode into the club at 10 p. m., found their way out at 1 :45 a. m. On the way back they fell to quarreling with the taxi driver over his charge for waiting time. As Representative Cannon later remembered it, the driver wanted $15. The driver said he asked for $6, whereupon his beery fares cursed, threatened to beat him up. Timid, the driver sped to police headquarters, charged his fares with intoxication & disorderly...
...unexpected stroke for Mellon's contention that he will really give the U. S. his great sugar plum fell last week when Duveen popped out, under the Government's cross-questioning, that he (Duveen) actually suggested a definite site for the Mellon museum: a spot "by the obelisk near the pond" (Duveen British for the Washington Monument), that he had recommended a British architect to Mellon and that he had actually seen rough sketches of the museum plans...
...crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John opened his door and saw a hallful of flames...