Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven years ago Emil Marek lost a leg. This was not the hard luck it might have seemed, for it enabled him to collect $42,875 in insurance to finance an invention. The invention failed and not long afterward he fell ill and died. In fairly rapid succession, so did his 3-year-old daughter, Ingeborg; an aunt, Suzanne Loewenstein; and the family seamstress, Anna Kittenberger. In each case Mrs. Martha Marek was in close attendance. Last week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood...
...last week the Elis fell into the trap that was waiting for them on the Charles River when the Crimson eight took them by a third of a length in 7:05.4. Princeton trailed two lengths behind as they had done on Lake Carnegle in the Wright races...
Quick to deny that report, for the present at least, were La Follette advisers and big, bluff Mr. Ward himself. Mr. Ward got his business start in Leavenworth where, serving a term for narcotic law violations, he fell in with President Herbert Huse Bigelow of Minneapolis' rich Brown & Bigelow (advertising specialties), who was serving a term for income tax evasion. When Mr. Ward was released, Mr. Bigelow, who thought him "good clay worthy of molding," gave him a letter to Brown & Bigelow that got him a job shoveling manure on one of the company farms. By the time...
Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish vaudeville comedian, slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Strathaven home, banged his face, bumped his thigh...
...immediately made a bid for the lead and pushed ahead with the Elis closely astern. Well aware that a second place was sufficient to place in the final race in the afternoon, stroke Bill Kellogg of the Blue let the Crimson extend themselves to an exhaustive victory. The record fell by the winning 6:58 time, but Yale also bettered the course mark...