Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They mocked. He abolished the lockstep. They did not object. He made the prison clean ("It doesn't cost the state anything to be clean," said he). The rough men smiled. He put them out on the honor system to work on the roads for pay. One convict ran away. The convicts cheered, for their chance had come. They asked for parole to chase the offender. Raymond T. Granted it and they caught the runaway. Raymond T. became idolized...
Other forms of excitement came later. He traveled to the ends of the earth. He elected his brother District Attorney. He went to Russia as confidential secretary to the U. S. Ambassador, and ran away from the Embassy to watch the Russians fight the Germans. But excitement, for him, had to be balanced by achievement. So he accepted from President Wilson the job of Director of the Mint, and served into the Harding Administration...
...could not take offense when he came boldly ashore to do business with them and dance with their daughters to the wailing guitar. In 1812 the British tried to buy him up to betray his favorite port. He pondered. He was Jean Lafitte, outlaw. The northern barbarians who ran the country of which New Orleans was but an exotic new part, had set a price on his head. Nevertheless, honor told him that his hosts' friends were his friends. He fought under Old Hickory...
Thus Mary Lewis, an orphan, ran away from her adopted parents-the Rev. and Mrs. William Fitch of Little Rock, Ark.-to become a chorus girl. The stair that creaked in that breathless dawn seven years ago still creaks, loudly and efficiently, as people pass up and down on household business. But last week Mary Lewis, current sensation of the Metropolitan Opera company and supreme example of What May Happen to a Chorus Girl, went back to Little Rock...
...Repertory Theatre's recently formulated plan to run a parody review next summer comes as a distinct novelty among Boston theatrical ventures. Parallels can be found in the Grand Street Follies and the Garrick Gaieties, both of which ran for many months in New York, but the undertaking is believed to be without precedent in Boston. A further innovation in this review is that it is to be composed, acted, and managed entirely by amateurs...