Word: fells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the Americans ran into snags. One student stayed a little toe late in the Colosseum, and found himself locked in for the night--he only got out by dint of a great deal of shouting and pounding at the gate. Another unfortunate fell into the Grand Canal in Venice...
Another Harvard tradition fell by the wayside this year, as the usual 3 percent exemption from English A was upped to 25 percent...
...automobile, a $900 television set, a few pieces of jewelry and a $1,000 merchandise slip from Saks Fifth Avenue. They saw a $1,700 diamond wristwatch go for $550, a $1,000 tile bathroom for $430, a $900 home workshop for $410. When the auctioneer's gavel fell for the last time, the Cohens had taken in about $4,000 in cash from their $28,000 windfall. After lawyer bills, warehouse rentals, auctioneer's commission, taxes and Mrs. Cohen's five weeks' lost salary were deducted, they hoped they would just about break even. Sighed...
...they see. Philip Evergood, 47, took second prize with a vaguely political parody of a mythological theme: Leda in High Places. Leda and the swan (which Evergood intended to represent "nature" and "man's ideals") were elegantly drawn and painted to shine like new snow, but the picture fell apart at the top and degenerated into cartooning at the bottom. Leda's just-hatched twins were cast as symbols of race-hatred. The prize they fought for, a cracked Easter egg in the background, was filled with gold coins...
Solemn Promise. Then the blow fell. The confetti had scarcely been swept up when a solemn statement rang out from the chancery office of the Catholic archdiocese of New York. "Newspapers, in describing the marriage . . .," the statement said, "have mentioned a second marriage ceremony . . . Both parties solemnly promised in writing that there would be only the Catholic ceremony . . . Therefore, the Catholic party automatically incurred excommunication...