Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During its trip to San Francisco and back the Panama-Pacific Liner Pennsylvania logged the following incidents: Her surgeon died of a stroke. The engine-room storekeeper died of pneumonia. Both were buried at sea. Brooding because the boatswain had taken his bedroom slippers, the ship's lookout fell 40 ft. from the crow's nest, arose unharmed. A 40-ft. whale became so firmly impaled on the Pennsylvania's bow that the captain had to put his ship astern to dislodge it. The liner also rushed to the aid of a freighter, took off a wiper...
Late one night his friend Michael Gryzwacz walked into Grigoris' room. "I am God!" screamed Grigoris. "Look at me and you die!" Michael Gryzwacz looked with staring eyes and fell dead, of a complication of old diseases, topped off by a heart attack. Having killed once with a look, Frank Grigoris was dragged off to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital...
Reason for the party was revival of defunct St. Nicholas which, from a peak circulation of 88,000 in 1922, had tumbled through a succession of ownerships to obscurity. Its circulation fell below 40,000. Title to St. Nicholas was lately acquired by Roy Walker, an Ohioan who sold advertising for ten years for Curtis Publishing Co., went into the publishing business for himself. He bought John Martin's Book, later scrapped it. Also he issued a cookbook for distribution in Woolworth stores which has sold phenomenally. Mrs. David Stern offered her financial support to the revived St. Nicholas...
...Paine" which worked up a speed of 60 m.p.h. on the new Vermont Central Railroad. Baldwin locomotives puffed through the Civil War, through the lusty era of Westward expansion, through the Spanish-American War until, during the World War, 300 per month were being produced. With Depression railroad orders fell off. Chairman Samuel M. Vauclain stoutly declared: "I have seen the grass, at times, grow six inches high in the Baldwin Locomotive works. It is not six inches high now. Therefore, why worry?" But the grass had a good chance to grow at the 590-acre Eddystone, Pa. plant...
...impossibly high ransom. Back in Spain he found various ways of nearly starving, loved a slut who left him, married a slattern whom he gladly left. As a middle-aged tax collector for Philip's insatiable treasury Cervantes might have ended his weary days. But he fell foul of his superiors, was arrested for embezzlement and clapped into the big jail at Seville. There, with the scum of Spain as his audience and his inspiration, Author Frank leaves him, happily hard at work on his masterpiece...