Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of Lilliput, the English magazine for moppets, appeared last week an introduction penned by War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha for a story written by his late mother. In this she described how Leslie, when a lad, fell into the ocean and sank a considerable distance, whereupon "a most lovely apparition with streaming hair glided toward him. She had eyes of the deepest blue. Her skin reminded him of a luscious peach. Most wondrous of all was her body. It tapered off into a slender curve, which sparkled and reflected every color...
...promises, large stores of grain, rice, dried fruits, some needed for home consumption, were exported. In one area His Imperial Majesty decreed that cotton should be grown instead of wheat. Drought ensued, the cotton crop failed, and to make matters worse the world's cotton market just then fell. To the Iranian masses this meant extreme privation, to foreign visitors scenes in Iran's villages were shocking...
...Chicago's International Amphitheatre last week, with 512 performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with...
...behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance for his last and crucial shot, Mike Blazek just perceptibly faltered. His ball crossed the head pin for a "Brooklyn"' hit.* The No. 5 pin wobbled, teetered, finally fell. The crowd yelled. Mike Blazek had done what only four bowlers in the 38-year history of the American Bowling Congress had been able to do-he had rolled a perfect game...
...Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet to a rock ledge, landed physically unhurt, but with his mind wandering...