Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Patricia Maguire fell soundly asleep in February 1932 with sleeping sickness, Chicago reporters have been calling regularly at her house for news (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week they found the young woman sitting up in bed, looking stupidly at a slate. "Pat, raise your right hand," her mother wrote on the slate. Slowly Patricia Maguire raised her right hand. "Raise your index finger." Slowly up went the finger. "Raise two fingers." Slowly she did as she was told...
...coarse, bull-necked man of capricious temper, with a talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home at Islesboro. To him it was just something which bobbed up with a satisfying swoosh when he pushed it under water. Soon the shorewise eye of Roderick's carpenter-father Hezekiah fell upon it. He sent specimens off to several chemists. Last week he announced that the chemists, whose names he would not tell, had reported his son's find to be pure ambergris. He further declared that a Midwest oil company had offered him $4,380 for five pounds...
...young Walter Lohmann in his first Manhattan appearance, fell off his bicycle and broke his collarbone less than an hour after Jack Dempsey had fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
...sale of silverware. So many of our customers have asked how we came out that we feel that this report should be given. The mark we were aiming at was the $44,000 sale of the Slavick Jewelry Co. of Los Angeles. . . . Our sale fell short by many thousand dollars, total sales here being...