Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jowl with Diamond Jim's lieutenant, Johnny Torrio. The two worked well together. In four years Capone & Torrio ruled Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since. Only disputant of their power was Dion O'Banion, on Chicago's North Side, who ran a flower shop as a sideline, specialized in floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets and left him sprawling on a pile of ferns. Among the tributes around...
...ran to the hall entrance with two others, but we could not make headway against the stream of persons pouring out. Before us, filling the hall, was a yellow-grey wall of dust and smoke. . . . Several wounded faltered through the door. I broke through and . . . the way into the hall was now free. I had to adjust my eyes to the dimness. Then I saw what had happened...
Until recent times, the treatment of madness was a kind of desperate punishment. In medieval madhouses patients were sometimes bound in whirling chairs and spun till blood ran out of their ears. Others were plunged down steep chimneys onto a pile of writhing snakes...
Dick Harlow was not pleased with yesterday's scrimmage in general, but Macdonald's work was highly satisfactory. He ran and passed in fine style, and observers predict that he will be ready to go at full speed against New Hampshire on Saturday...
Passers-by told Sheehan that they saw smoke coming out of an upstairs window in the house, and while he ran upstairs to investigate they turned in the alarm at the corner...