Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judging from the backfield which ran through signals yesterday, spectators in the Stadium will see a reorganized quartet in action. A combination which sprang into prominence on Tuesday was once again working together and it seems to be a pretty safe bet that it will start tomorrow. Wood was at quarter, while Putnam, erstwhile signal caller, was at left half. Devens and Harper completed this backfield. There is a good possibility that Mays, light but speedy Sophomore, will start, in which case he will replace Wood and Putnam will return to his regular berth...
...tariff bill. Mr. Eyanson was sent to Washington, settling himself in Senator Bingham's office. During the open hearings he sat at the Senator's elbow and whispered questions to be asked witnesses. He prepared press statements for the Senator, supplied him with technical arguments, "ran errands." His assistance to Senator Bingham, who pleaded ignorance of Connecticut's industrial needs, was "invaluable." No Senator except Bing ham knew that Eyanson was the hired man of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association, which praised his work as "splendid" and assured him that he had "made good" and given the association...
...While the monster wildly trumpeted and twisted, Nagel kept on firing, exhausted all his ammunition. He asked for more but it was not until 60 shots had crashed into Black Diamond that he sagged and toppled. Circus performers at the execution wept as Black Diamond fell. Afterward, Executioner Nagel ran to his home, went to bed, whitefaced...
...introduction from Cuban President Gerardo Machado: ''We are sure that she will demonstrate the sympathy the sentiment and artistic capacity of the Cuban people." But unfortunately Soprano Otero was unequal to the occasion. Her pleasing, natural tone could not offset faulty breathing. Once her over-taxed voice ran down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later...
Emma Redell (born in Baltimore, reared in Washington) has been described in the news recently as a "daring blonde girl" who ran away from home eight years ago and worked her way to Europe as a stewardess. Expecting a spirited, sprightly creature, her first audience was surprised to see an unusually large woman make a stolid entrance on the Carnegie Hall stage, to hear her sing in a strong, silken voice a recital which was consistently dull...