Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nardossy," queried the Chief Magistrate, Judge Toereky, "how did it happen that you conspired with Prince Ludwig Win-disch-Graetz? How did he ever dare to broach this stupendous plan of forgery to you, the Chief of Police of Budapest...
With the national applecart thus upset, each of Poland's three political tycoons (Dmowski, Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita Palska. He was exiled to Siberia (1887-1892) for plotting to assassinate the Tsar; and during the World War the Germans succeeded in catching and imprisoning him. When at liberty, he delights to organize bands of "patriots," train them in gymnastic sokols (clubs) and lead them on ill-considered expeditions...
...really good boy who simply does not know what a day's work consists of. After keeping him on for half-year with an unsatisfactory record, we often say to him and his family that he ought to be taken out and given a good, stiff job. That happens generally at midyears. Sometimes it does not happen until the end of the freshman year. If it happens at midyears, the man can start in again in the autumn if he has made a good record for himself outside...
This is what music-lovers have often wished would happen. This, in substance, was what happened last Friday. Philadelphians were "dumbfounded by Stokowski's satire." Some applauded. Some hissed. Forty odd first-row patrons walked out. At last a conductor had had the courage to give a Philadelphia audience a few hints on behavior...
...four players on the Harvard team, the present Intercollegiate champions," said a report of the United State Polo Associations. "Is such material as to have a pronounced effect on the future of the game. They are all players of considerable ability and rare promise. That they happen to be the sons of families in which polo has been played is not significant. There are as promising players at Yale and Princeton and the other institutions in the Intercollegiate Polo Association. College graduates interested in the game, who saw little or nothing of this sport in their undergraduate days, would...