Word: felling
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...retired early, he was aroused from his bed at 10 p.m. by two generals sent by the President to invite him to a banquet; and he rose and went. On another evening, though not feeling well, he refused to cancel an engagement to attend the opera. And afterwards he fell...
Opposite York House, his London mansion, waited the Prince of Wales in his carriage, which fell in behind the Blues. Slowly, laboriously and with great dignity, the procession moved...
...scientists listened and fell to their deliberations on many subjects...
That, in outlining their defense (all the defendants declared they would plead "Not Guilty"), the newspapers fell back upon the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, that Amendment which guarantees to the press the right of free speech. Everyone was agreed that the law provided that the tax lists should be placed "open to public inspection." The question, as the Herald-Tribune framed it, would therefore be: "Can Congress say, 'You may talk, but you may not write...
...long hours alone with his fleecy flock did much to develop in him the curious individuality which has always been his notable characteristic. At 18, he was apprenticed to a marble worker; and, a few years later, went to Vienna and took up the study of Art. There he fell under the influence of Franz Metzner, Austrian master. From that time on, his success was assured. His reputation gradually swept Europe. The chief characteristics of Mestrovic's work are a rigid simplicity of line; draperies falling in straight close folds; hard, grim faces; heads sunk low or crammed awkwardly into...