Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George V it says little: that he has a tenacious memory, is the first British King since Charles II to be a first-class practitioner of a field sport (shooting), that the British Government suppressed the fact that during the null horse reared and fell on him. Of the British institution of the Throne it says much: "A calm at the heart of the storm. The King is of no class, being above classes. . . . His duty is not to act but to be ... like Time...
...thought Belgian shopkeepers knew as little about international exchange as did the majority of U. S. shopkeepers who disappointed President Roosevelt by not kiting prices as high as he thought they would. Belgian shopkeepers, keen exchange watchers, raised prices this week almost as fast as the belga fell. This made Premier van Zeeland so angry that he lashed out: "The Belgian franc ought to buy just as much merchandise as it did a year ago. Stop thinking of the monetary question, my countrymen! We are here to defend the franc and your savings. Keep calm...
...enormous (300,000) crowd at Aintree were the Prince of Wales who climbed down an embankment from his train to escape the crush; a boisterous young farmer named Agnew who tried to clear the 16-ft. water jump in front of the grandstand and fell in; John...
Steeplechase. Jockey Wilson fell again, at the first fence...
...nerve-torn mind. With Jack, just released from prison, kidnapped and murdered, his wife making radical capital out of his martyrdom, with his racketeer brother Andy's "brain guy" dead and Andy left blustering but defenceless before the gathering wolves of the Los Angeles underworld, Peter fell victim to amnesia and disappeared. By the time Adamic found him again Peter was in no condition to write anything but "finis...