Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort of Christmas parade. No parade, the mobsters charged the court house twice. The no guardsmen returned tear gas for rocks, held firm. The third time the mob charged, militia officers, determined to hold the court house, ordered: "Fire!" A countryman named Pat Lawes spun around like a top, fell eight feet from the court house porch to a concrete walk below, dying. A house painter named Edwards dropped with a bullet through his chest. Two other countrymen were mortally wounded. Twenty in the mob were peppered in the legs with buckshot...
Defense, Shortly after Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx with $20 of the Lind bergh ransom money in his pocket, Anna Hauptmann fell into the hands of one Harry Whitney, who has since described himself as the Hauptmanns' "business manager." At first Hauptmann refused to have any lawyer, discarding several of his wife's selection. By the end of his first week's imprisonment, however, he had agreed to retain James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn. It was Lawyer Fawcett who unsuccessfully fought Governor Lehman's extradition warrant before The Bronx County Supreme Court...
...year Messrs. Johnson & Richberg worked shoulder-to-shoulder. Then began the long, loud ruction over NRA reorganization. As old friends will, the two men fell out violently. Counsel Richberg worked in closer and closer to the White House while General Johnson charged his staff with "disloyalty." Finally, Johnson angrily resigned and Richberg was upped to the nominal rank of "Assistant President" (TIME...
...size from one thousand to one million men. who was never defeated, who compelled the capitulation of ten fortresses, five armies, and eventually of the entire hostile government, to be relegated as inferior to the men he conquered, to his column-commanders or to foreign generals whose achievements fell far below...
...like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful marriage, she met Venn again. He proposed immediately, and she married him. When he discovered it was the island she loved, not himself, he spent his life plaguing her, trying to change her allegiance. Until his jealousy drove...