Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through my vest there ran a thrill...
...Davis. Beech-Nut Packing secured Charles E. Hughes (1910-16 U. S. Supreme Court Justice). Less fortunate lawyers predicted the usual fat fees, said Lawler Davis had commanded in one case $5,000 a day, that Lawyer Hughes had received $100,000 for a single case. Both lawyers once ran for President and were defeated: Mr. Hughes in 1916, as the Republican candidate, Mr. Davis in 1924 on the Democratic ticket. Both illustrate the earnings-power of men in public life...
...Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher started A. Mutt in the San Francisco Chronicle as a race track tipster, in 1907. Little Jeff was the inmate of an asylum Mutt visited to make wild bets in peace. Swift, efficient bundle of nerves, Mr. Fisher ran with Walter Eckersall on a championship team at the Penn Relays 25 years ago. His income, somewhere near $200,000, affords him art and idea assistants...
...vocabulary. Wherefore teachers of Public School No. 58, Manhattan, have devised a discipline, published last week, of fining each school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...
...What famed Republican editor, who ran for President in 1872 on the Democratic ticket, said: "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers were democrats...