Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly a terrible vision swept across the Vagabond's imaginative mind. Sirens screamed. Great tongues of flame lapped at Peabody. Squads of firemen, regardless of personal risk or private property, ran in with axes. There were sickening sounds, and then the smoke-eaters appeared at the windows and threw out the cases. (Firemen can't be expected to understand about these things: lost of them are Democrats...
Three days after Mamba's Daughters opened, 19 notables-including Actresses Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Gish, Scene-Designer Norman Bel Geddes, Author Carl Van Vechten, and Publishers Cass Canfield and John Farrar -ran a testimonial in the N. Y. Times...
...Gail Borden of Chicago's Social Register is rarely allowed to forget that the great-granduncle for whom he is named invented condensed milk. Not so well known is the fact that his great-grandfather John and two brothers started the first newspaper in the Republic of Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed Lou Ruppel...
...Foster," he said, "I'm your man. I'm all shot. . . ." May dashed out, hailed the cops, grabbed a short-wave microphone and ran back in to interview his captive before police could haul him away...
...Thus ran sport-page headlines last April when Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, in his first year as manager of a hockey team, flew his limp-winged Chicago Black Hawks to a Stanley Cup victory. Last week, on the third day of 1939, the Miracle Man of 1938 was given the bum's rush...