Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were cursing their luck in Tientsin's sleazy port. Waiter Muller and George Schroeder, two brawny mechanics, were tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...
...Buffalo's brightest boys, by the sworn word of his parents, was young Patrick Lepeiro, 11. One day Patrick was bumped by the automobile of Mrs. Edward J. Laube, wife of a well-to-do restaurateur. After that, according to the Lepeiros, Patrick fell behind in his studies. He was subject to head pains, fits of giggling. He played with younger children. Mr. & Mrs. Lepeiro took their dull son to Psychiatrist Hyman Levin of the Buffalo State Hospital. Dr. Levin gave him an intelligence test, flunked him, and last week went to court to help the Lepeiros collect...
Cheering, stamping, climbing over desks and chairs, Miss De Lee's partisans packed the Syracuse courtroom so tight for the State hearing on her reinstatement plea that one oldster fainted and Ward Van De Bogart Jr., 7, who once had his lips taped for whispering, fell sound asleep. Star witness was Ward's big brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they...
...local artist of whom their fathers had been so proud was an artless fellow who did not know how to draw. Yet in Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art was proud to give a great retrospective show to the work of George Caleb Bingham (1811-79). Critics fell over themselves with such phrases as "a modern Delacroix," "last of the Renaissance tradition," "rival of David and Ingres." Only cautious bang-haired Royal Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George Caleb Bingham: "There is no distinction of style about his work...
...twelve hours per day at hard labor under a broiling sun, his legs weighted with heavy irons. The other twelve hours he spent chained hand & foot in a small, solitary dungeon, wet, hot, swarming with mosquitoes and vermin. His legs and arms swelled up and his hair fell...