Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, they are like the animal in Aesop's Fables which had four legs on its back as well as four legs under its belly. When it got tired running on one set of legs, it simply turned over and ran on the other set; and you never could catch it. That is the perfectly parliamentary animal that these Senators...
When the second half opened, the furious attack of the University quintet over welcomed the hitherto strong Yale defense. Quick, accurate passing and deadly accuracy in basket shooting quickly ran up the Crimson total. Leekley and Dorn, fed by passes from the other members of the team, together accounted for five field goals. The Eli basketeers had but few opportunities to score and failed through poor shooting to convert any of these opportunities into points. Their total of four points for the period came from free throws. Goals from foul added seven points to the Harvard total...
...Experts estimated that the cost of producing The King's Henchman, with its 28 roles and large chorus, ran near to $75,000. Each performance would cost $15,000 running expense. The box office took in $15,504 the first night. The authors' reward was guessed at $15,000, share alike...
...seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers; that women were throwing violets at him. Startled, he ran off the stage. His mother protected him from men and women who came plunging through back doors crying, "He is a love!" "He is divine!" Police had to help his motor leave the hall. . . . His name is Yehudi Menuhin. He is 10. He was born in New York, raised...
...HAVE A FINE FUNERAL- Pierre La Maziere- Brentano's ($2). What if a clerk, after drudging in J. P. Rockerbilt & Co. for 20 years, seized his chance to embezzle $10,000 and soon ran it into six figures by playing the stock market as he saw his superiors secretly playing it? What if he then confessed his peculation to the bank president, tendering his check for the stolen sum, plus interest, and showing by his bank book that he was an important depositor? Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because...