Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst. The precipitation, 7.26 in., made the wettest early December since 1889, reminded frightened Los Angelenos of their disastrous floods last March (11 in. in five days). Casualty: a ten-year-old boy fell and was knocked unconscious, drowned in a puddle. Wisecrack: Radio Comedian Bob Hope complained that he had been arrested for going through a traffic light before the tide turned...
...secret session in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, solemnly plotting the 1939 course of the U. S. national game. Meanwhile baseball's henchmen-managers, scouts, oldtimers, sportswriters, votaries-set up their "hot stove" in the Waldorf's elegant lobby, toasted the crumbs that fell from the sovereigns' table...
Editor O'Brien Boldt of the Daily Dartmouth planned to send a Christmas present to Adolf Hitler: four test tubes containing samples of Jewish, Negro, Mongolian and "Aryan" blood contributed by undergraduates, together with a letter challenging him to tell the difference. The plan fell through because the would-be donors could find no "pure Aryan" blood...
...dialogue by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Frank R. Adams and 2) pleasant performances by Fredric March and Joan Bennett, who, as a brunette, looks like Hedy Lamarr. To work his material into the body of the picture, which was made in the United Artists studio, Director Tay Garnett fell back on the reliable motif of the chase: assigned to find a girl wanted by the San Francisco police, Detective Sam Wye follows her to Hawaii, catches up with her in Singapore, falls in love with her in Ceylon, marries her on a boat leaving Bombay, settles down to live...
...branch offices in London, Paris, Naples; lenders were the Bank of the Manhattan Co., the Anglo-South American Trust Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., some 20 others. But when Philip Musica tried to borrow $370,000 on a bill of lading for $250 worth of hair, the company fell apart. There were no legitimate offices abroad. There was mighty little hair. There was a sudden shortage of Musicas...