Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still contend that he has no sense of humor. Your instance of his pushing a bell and scampering away while detectives look around to find out who did it (TIME, Jan. 21) indicates rather that he has fallen into his second childhood. I have a boy, eight, who pushes the doorbell and scampers...
...Hips remain sleek but relieved toward evening by billowy puff effects and prodigious furbelows. 2) Waistlines are rising to the normal waist, are frequently accentuated by belts. 3) Skirts have fallen irretrievably, with several Patou street models a full six inches below knee length, and many evening gowns with demi-trains. 4) Evening bodices are slimmer, with decolletage lower behind, higher in front. 5) Trig jackets-many reversible-are especially smart for city and sports. 6) Summer fabrics, very simple for day wear, with a startling revival of bright ginghams and even calicos. 7) Hats are even smaller and sleeker...
Just recently the University appropriated a fraction of Mr. Harkness' gift of over $11,000,000 to buy up the mortgage on the Lampoon from Isaac Coolidge Ginsberg, of the North Cambridge Holdings Company. So badly has the Lampoon fallen in recent years, that the sandwich man hired yesterday by the Lampoon to advertise the Crimson competitions was advised by his lawyer to attach the Lampoon's Dutch tiles for his payment. The sandwich man's title to the tiles is being disputed by the Bursar's Office which plans to put the tiles on sale as companion pieces...
...Italy is certainly the most interesting and instructive example, for there the liberal system, introduced by Cavour, had been in operation for over 50 years. There can be no doubt that it was premature and that the country was not prepared for it. Before long the government had fallen into the hands of a comparatively small group, which frequently utilized its position for selfish ends. Even before the war the opposition to the regime had found strong expression in the socialist movement and in the revival of a nationalist movement which aimed at the consolidation of the national powers...
...always has the American Philosophical Society, oldest U. S. learned society, propounded such weighty questions. Founded in 1744 by Benjamin Franklin, but fallen into decline, it was revived in 1767 by Philadelphia aristocrats who were jealous of another Franklin- Franklin-founded society, "The American Society for Promoting and Promulgating Useful Knowledge in Philadelphia." By January 1769 the city's store of useful knowledge had become considerable; its philosophical riches were gratifying. It occurred to Philadelphians that the two were not perforce antagonistic. The two societies joined, elected Franklin president, called themselves the American Philosophical Society...