Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year later, Presbrey had to dodge gunfire again to get another beat. He was on his way for a quiet beer just as the cops flushed Dillinger Henchman Homer van Meter, then Public Enemy No. 1, from an apartment hiding place. In trying to escape, Van Meter ran in front of Presbrey's car. Presbrey jammed on the brake and the cops poured 40 slugs into Van Meter. Now, after such narrow escapes, Paul Presbrey is getting a little mystical about his luck. Says he: "Sometimes it scares me. But I couldn't stop going if I wanted...
Beneath his Dragging there was a basis of solid and sordid fact. Astonishingly handsome and strong, Guy ran through a bewildering string of conquests. His mistresses included prostitutes, actresses, a singer-writer from Sandusky, Ohio named Blanche Roosevelt, a French woman whose husband was a diplomat in Rumania and for whom (perhaps to show his gratitude) De Maupassant tried to obtain the coveted ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and a Polish noblewoman...
Since the League of Independents ran on a more or less negative platform, it was itself perhaps surprised to have gained so large a percentage of the vote. We may say that it is pro-Nazi in the same sense that the other parties are pro-Nazi because they attempted to capture the vote of ex-Nazis. U. S. authorities in Austria, however, are reserving judgment as to its totalitarian nature until they can observe its action in Parliament. Perhaps the Europe-traveling editors of the CRIMSON might do the same. R. Gerald Livingston...
...original proprietor ran his shop until his death in 1930; his wife continued on as general manager and cashier until 1941, when Nicholas Lombardi, who had been working there for 20 years already, and John Capolupo bought the shop. This pair still heads the staff of barbers...
...scrimmage line, Dartmouth exhibited a steady though short-gaining ground offense, and a very successful passing attack. Whenever a crucial play came up, quarterback Clayton usually relied on the passing game. Three times he pulled the optional bootleg pass and run. When the halfbacks didn't come up, he ran; when they did, he passed to the unprotected receivers they had abandoned. The really tragic part of it all was that on each occasion either all the defending backs, or none of them, came up to deal with Mr. Clayton...