Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annapolis, Franklin Roosevelt addressed the Naval Academy's graduating class, told another slumber story: How as Assistant Secretary of the Navy at a graduation during the War, he fell asleep on the platform...
...averaged over 18?; in 1932 it dropped to 5?. Last year, with war abroad and U. S. industry in better shape, the price rose as high as 17?. Under this lure, production in the U. S. and abroad rose to high levels. Then demand began to slacken; prices fell; production was curtailed...
...much for her. The music that Rick Martin made died with him; it was improvised, unwritten, spontaneous and "one of these days even his records will be played out." To approximate that music in prose, she gives accounts of where and when it was played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about the hard, homely details of musicians' lives...
...pall hung over Soldiers Field Saturday. Rain Fell continually all afternoon, at times lightly, at time heavily. All things considered it was a gloomy...
...were a socialist, a beach-comber, or some other sort of undesirable, and fell in love with a wealthy and beautiful young lady, her family would resent it--and she would pretend to. But if you were the only man she had over known, she would end up by marrying you, and paternal benediction would be tardy but inevitable...