Word: sank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny West heard. He opened the cab door, shot Conn in the lungs and hit a game protector named Frank Friemoth in the shoulder. But as Conn sank, his Tommy gun cut loose. West toppled out to the pavement, dying, his face a bloody pulp...
Griffith was hurt and astonished at the cries. By way of answer, he sank all the money he had in another super. Intolerance. The film ran 20 hours, before cutting, and undertook to prove, in four parallel stories from history, that intolerance and injustice never pay. Intolerance itself was a failure at the box office. Like his later successes (Broken Blossoms, Orphans of the Storm and Way Down East), it perhaps only proved that Griffith would never again match The Birth of a Nation...
...after Harrison had dined with her at her big Pacific Palisades house, Frances Ridste gulped a few fast highballs and wrote a note to her "Dearest Mommie." She scribbled: "Goodbye, my angel. Pray for me." She signed it, "Your Baby." Then she took a lethal handful of sleeping pills, sank to the bathroom floor, and died...
...into a toy designed to preserve the spoken word upon a wax-covered cylinder. All went well until the poet came to the words, "Speed! echoed the . . ." Then he hesitated, and said: "I forget it." Upon being prompted, however, he went on: "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest." Again the poet paused, and presently said: "I am exceedingly sorry that I cannot remember my own verses, but one thing I shall remember all my life is the astonishing sensation produced upon me by your wonderful invention, Mr. Edison...
...years, the headmistress sank her profits in the school. Then she borrowed $900,000 on her reputation, in 1931 moved the school into new Georgian buildings on a wooded, 200-acre estate overlooking the Potomac, twelve miles from town. Today there are 186 girls, and most of the debt has been paid...