Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night...
Died. Thomas LeBoutellier II, 51, of Manhattan, revolver champion of Europe, brother-in-law of Malcom Stevenson, international polo player; at Westbury, L. I. During the first chukker of a polo match at Meadowbrook Club, Mr. Leboutellier, stricken with heart failure, fell dying from his saddle...
...course, immediate. Horton then sustains five reels of comic discomfiture. Valiant though protesting, he attempts to ride the Hottentot, connives darkly with the butler to get rid of the beast. But then he has to promise to ride Bountiful, Patsy Ruth's own horse. Panic-stricken he feeds the horse apples and water which swell it out of drawing. She discovers him, tears flow, the race comes. With tremendous will power he secretly buys the vicious Hottentot, dons the girl's colors, rides the race after having disabused Patsy Ruth's mind as to his identity...
Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
...chieftain explaining the stick lesson to tribesmen, and with text expounding its application to religion, won the first prize of $1,000 in a "Why Go to Church?" contest. Sponsor of the competition was the "Church Group" of members of the New York Advertising Club, voluntarily offering to attendance-stricken U. S. churches their sagacity in the wiles of selling...