Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bone won his first election, to the State Legislature, as a Farmer-Laborite. In 1928 he ran for the Republican nomination for Congress, losing, he says, because on election day the power mysteriously failed on Tacoma's privately owned streetcar line, keeping humble voters at home. In 1932 he beat conservative Lawyer Stephen F. Chadwick, present National Commander of the American Legion, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination...
...used violence in executing a court order, at first seemed stymied by Mrs. Barnett's tactics. But early one morning when his customary audience was home in bed, he and twelve deputies cautiously moved up on the house. Mrs. Barnett, in the back yard feeding her pet cockatoo, ran in, bolted the door...
Marooned on the deck of the wallowing ship, the crew ran up distress signals* on main-truck and foremast, slung the Stars and Stripes upside-down from the shrouds. Captain Milton dived into the flooded cabin, brought up a case of whiskey, some canned salmon, a flask of water. Diving down again, he found the ship's cat, Fluffy, on a shelf above water level in the cabin, brought her up in a sea bag, along with blankets, the ship's chronometer, a sextant, a flashlight, a picture of his wife...
Appearing first as Chinese coolies in long, black shirts, the Yale men rushed onto the stage, set up several tents, then rushed off. Several moments later, attired as Chinese bandits, viz: without shirts, they ran on again and tore down the tents. Later, they became coolies once more, bringing two lovers in a palanquin onstage; then removing them after a wedding ceremony...
...fame in the Boston University race, where he decided to emulate the feat of Alec Northrup, and run with only one shoe. When Northrup lost his shoe in last year's New England Relays, he turned in a 4:17 mile; and Tuttle did almost equally well as he ran beautifully to take first place--despite the fact that over the last three miles of the course he had one shoe on and one shoe off. Mikkola has only one thing to add about him--"if he could only spend a little less time on labs," he says wistfully...