Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play in which a young girl married to a cripple and needing sexual relief ran off with a lusty sailor. (Port o' London...
...have been a long while-maybe a year-getting around to it, but some time in the past twelvemonth TIME has had an item which impresses me as rare journalism. [TIME, Oct. 19, SPORT]. It was a little piece, and it ran, according to my copy, like this...
...subjects of Physiologist Hazel Field at the state university, who studied their antics before and after blowing through their cages, from clay pipes, puffs of smoke of Pennsylvania leaf tobacco. None of the rodents exhibited symptoms similar to those of small boys behind barns. On the contrary, the rats ran, jumped, squeaked more actively. Physiologist Field's object: to ascertain the probable effect of smoking on humans. After establishing that tobacco stimulates and produces increased activity, she proposed to investigate the popular notion that the after effects of smoking are depressing...
...veins ran the purest blood of our forefathers, surcharged with the bracing airs of the new world. His courage was that of the American jaguar and of the dauntless globe-circling conquistadors. For integrity he was another Gibraltar, for vision a sun-regarding eagle, for aspiration a Napoleon, a Caesar. . . . Generous, high-minded, inflexible of will and purpose. . . . The century's, yes, all the centuries' hero...
Though only a shy, mouselike toe peeps now and again from beneath Lanice's decorously billowing hoopskirts, within, untrammeled by its stays, waits a supple birch-sliver body. Lanice's mother, a vivid little chestnut-blonde, ran from her professor-husband with a precocious invalid student, to Italy...