Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, following a brief visit on the statue's hat brim, moved inside the head & shoulders for greater comfort. Seeing the old man busily occupied astride William Penn's armpit, Artist Shinn asked what he was doing. "Writing a letter to posterity," the friend replied, and promptly fell down into the Penn elbow. With some difficulty Artist Shinn extricated...
...streets with handkerchiefs tied across their faces. How great was the crop damage remained largely a matter of guesswork. Oklahoma grimly reported that 50% of the wheat in the Western part of the State was ruined. An Oklahoman was said to have fainted when a drop of rain fell on his head, to have been revived only when two buckets of sand were thrown in his face...
...speck got bigger. Suddenly a wing fluttered loose from his plane and drifted away. Then the whole ship seemed to break up in midair. The motor tore out, plunged into the middle of a street. The wing landed in a field half a mile away. Spinning wildly, the fuselage fell among the tombstones of Pinelawn Cemetery...
...heart. Pierce pulled the knife out of his heart, folded it and put it back in his pocket, handed the girl his wallet, said, "Will you pay the check?" With a roomful of patrons watching him in strict silence, Pierce took five steps toward the door, fell down dead. "That, gentlemen," Miss King told police, "is the way a gentleman dies...
...Peter wanted to be a writer. Moreover he had run across his cousin Jack, who had become an I. W. W. organizer, and whose devotion to the labor cause gave Peter something else to think about. While Jack languished in San Quentin, Peter to his horror fell in love with Jack's wife. To give him something to settle on, Adamic suggested he write the story of these three grandsons...