Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suffer for others rather than to make them suffer." This sounded blasphemous at the time. He was as rampant in politics. President Hayes' administration he called "a bread pudding." A Republican from the earliest years of that party, he left it when in 1884 James G. Blaine ran for the Presidency against Grover Cleveland. He called himself a "Mugwump," a political purist. Pastor Beecher was full-blooded; dared not eat red meat. His only outdoor exercise was croquet. He died of aponlexy...
...preaching, comment audibly upon his sermon. When she had listened as long as seemed to her sufficient, she would shout out: "That will be about all for today, David!" In 1900 Carrie Nation, began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord!" At length, convinced of her "mission," she set out to crusade against the Demon Rum. Then began her saloon-smashing career. Almost six feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, she would stride through the swinging doors of Kansas saloons...
Meanwhile, smashing the Bayou de Glaize line of defense, flood waters swept through the sugar-belt district of Louisiana, threatened to add 125,000 new refugees to the total of flood fugitives. The Bayou de Glaize defenses ran, roughly speaking, east and west through Avoyelles Parish, about 90 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. Having broken through this line on a front of some 25 miles (in a straight east-west line) the water was expected to continue almost unhindered to the Gulf. It should empty into the Bays of Vermilion and the Cote Blanche, some 100 miles west...
...prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard a train at Rome, attended by four nurses and his sister, the Honorable Constance Gibson. Thus guarded, she left Italy...
Half of the race was over last week, and Whiskery was looking like one of those who also-ran. Far ahead were Jock of Publisher Edward B. McLean's stable and Osmond of Joseph E. Widener's and a dozen other three-year-olds. Then Jockey McAtee crouched low and hugged; Whiskery began to whisk until he whisked across the finish line, a nose ahead of Osmond. Jock was third...