Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...
...m.p.h. offshore wind snapped a high-tension wire feeding the summer homes of such cinema notables as Ronald Colman, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Ruth Chatterton, Marie Prevost, at Malibu Beach, Calif. The wire fell on a tank of gasoline, exploded it. Fire ripped through the colony, destroyed 19 houses, including those of Louise Fazenda, Director Alan Dwan...
...animated chats. Such was the charm of his tongue or his appearance that a chambermaid in a hotel, a respectable woman with a son, left her job to go walking with him. Other occasional companions were a gypsy fiddler, a bishop, a mayor. Once a beautiful peasant woman fell in love with him for a night, begged him to help her revenge herself on her absent and unfaithful husband. Baerlein was a perfect gentleman. Philosophical, he took everything as it came, let it go the same...
Once again France was to have a government of the Left. The previous cabinet, that of youngster Andre Tardieu who fell two weeks ago (TIME, Dec. 15), was of the Right. Two other statesmen, Louis Barthou (Right) and Pierre Laval (Independent), tried and failed to form cabinets. It was definitely the turn of Left Oldster Theodore Steeg...
...plan was to be kept "confidential" until time to spring it on the President as a New Year's surprise. But the secret was only one day old when it fell into the hands of Mississippi's sly Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...