Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electorate about it, "a story I've never forgotten. "A mother, leaving her children alone for a few minutes, warned them not to stuff beans into their ears or noses. They'd never heard of the trick before. The minute the mother was out of sight they ran for the bean jar. "Human nature doesn't change. Our boys and girls are being ruined with the poison they sell for liquor nowadays. I know of things too terrible to tell-hip liquor at dances, lovers' lanes, roadhouses, increasing illegitimacy. And I have a daughter 16 years...
Would-be-assassin Domingo Masachs Torrent, markedly neurasthenic, did not notice in the excitement of shouting, "Down with you, tyrant!" a secret service car which swooped upon him, ran him down, broke...
...bound Castle of Eerde, at Ommen in The Netherlands, sat last week the devotees of the Order of the Star in the East (Mrs. Annie Besant's Theosophist cult). The castle had just been donated to them, to be henceforth the capitol* of their faith. About the grounds ran a miniature railway bearing food for the many hundreds who waited in arduous patience to hear a "sweet, penetrating voice" issue from the soft, brown lips of their Jiddu Krishnamurti. In such tones will their "World Teacher" speak when his spirit flitters into Jiddu's tennis-playing, tea-drinking...
...that you skidded. Of New York's 47,128 accidents in 1925, only 148 occurred at railroad crossings. Pedestrians figured in 30,811 cases; 58,444 vehicles were involved. Pleasure cars were over three times as destructive as trucks, almost four times as destructive as taxicabs. Sunday ran Saturday a close second for "death day." Friday was third and Tuesday safest of all. Said the Scientific American: "If every one would cease 'jay-walking,' if children would keep off the roadways and streets, if young men would pet in parlors and drivers would obey the Eighteenth Amendment...
...Positively the greatest cast ever assembled appears in The Mauve Decade," the copy ran. (Grizzled gentry remembered the yellow posters outside a dozen Orpheum Theatres.) "Stirring scenes," it read on, "from early history are here presented for the first time in any book. See the majestic funeral of Emerson, the pitiful arrest of Coxey's army-" (Ah, yes, just so read a showboat's handbills when they played Uncle Tom down the Mississippi Valley)-"and The- odore Roosevelt (in person) putting-aside questions of state to decide more intimately those of the wardrobe. . . . Thomas Beer conclusive- ly proves...