Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amazing in a city whose annual rain fall is 15.2 in., a steady, soaking rain fell in Southern California, recording eleven inches in five days. As unprepared for such an event as Los Angeles' citizens, Los Angeles' terrain failed to absorb the water. From the San Bernardino hills behind the city, the mountains behind the hills, it sluiced down across the narrow coastal plain on which the city and its scattered suburbs sprawl over 482 square miles. Three days of storm filled the shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over...
...Premier Faidsula Khodzhaev of Uzbekistan, a swarthy Asiatic speaking Russian as thick and soft as a Negro drawl. "I ask you to believe me!" he cried at the climax of his confession, "but of course you cannot believe me, because of my position here!" To this wily Asiatic it fell to confess that the British Government had figured in the conspiratorial arrangements of Trotsky...
...heard auditions, reshuffled the old personnel, sweated his musicians into top-notch form, followed with a series of performances that brought stolid Pittsburgh audiences to their feet, yelling & stamping. At the season's close, Klemperer was offered the job but decided to stay in Los Angeles. Second choice fell to 49-year-old Budapest-born Reiner, whose second wife, former Actress Carlotta Irwin, is the daughter of the late Pittsburgh Skylight Manufacturer Thomas W. Irwin. Conductor Reiner, long known among orchestra musicians as one of the most crotchety and technically efficient conductors in the U. S., conducts without score...
Handicapped by a mid-year examination lay-off, the Crimson fell before an unexpected Eli assault in the two teams' first meeting at New Haven last month. With renewed confidence after trouncing the exalted Indians, the Cantabs are set to wipe out the stain of that defeat tonight...
Died. Hugh Lloyd Thomas, 49, British Minister to Paris, amateur jockey; of a broken neck, when his horse, Periwinkle II, fell after taking the last fence in a three-mile steeplechase; in Derby, England...