Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earth, and He, on the seventh day, rested." Thus began the first of many rhapsodies, conceived by U. S. Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan of Nashville, Tenn., to sell the U. S. mail service to Nashvillians. The emanations of Dr. O'Callaghan addressed to "Mr. Nashville Businessman" ran on exuberantly, telling of Cyrus the Great of Persia who had " a snappy mail service," quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with...
...proud we were when privileged merely to see his venerable form when he might be walking in the park. But when we were so fortunate as to catch his eye and have our salutation returned with a smile of ineffable charm, then our joy knew no bounds and we ran home to brag about it." Amused commentators recalled that while Wilhelm I was known as Der Greise Kaiser, "The Aged Emperor," his grandson Wilhelm II won by his incessant gadding about Europe the nickname Der Reise-Kaiser "The Tourist Emperor" or literally "The Trip Emperor...
...Belleville, Ill., one Sidney Goring, 15, heard his father's farm dogs fighting in a ravine beside the house, ran to see, ran back for his father's shotgun, blazed both barrels, slew a large grey wolf...
...then looking at them as Tar used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying, "Well, now. What to think of that?" The only sad note in Huck's boyhood came at the end, when his mother died and he cried for her in a freight car, then ran off to sell his papers, to shift for himself, to grow...
...niece, aged 23. Annabel had no moral sense but a heart. The heart had been cracked by her first lover. She had winged eyebrows, cherubic curves and, like the Blonde that Gentlemen Preferred, she loved presents. So they were married and a romantic comedy was wound up when she ran off with the next passing youth and Gamaliel caught a chill running after...