Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition's best friend is Kansas. In the newspaper poll of the nation just now compiled sentiment everywhere ran overwhelmingly in favor of modification or repeal except in a few southern states and in Kansas. Kansas was dry--incomparably drier than any other state in the Union. The natural query is, what manner of commonwealth is this that, alone among its fellows outside the stolid South, still stands so stubbornly beside its Volsteadian guns...
...being 54 and not having anything very exciting to do, Mrs. Landes ran for the city council in Seattle and was elected. Two years later she ran again and was re-elected by the largest vote ever recorded for her post. For the last two years she had been President of the City Council, and in that capacity functioned as Acting Mayor in the summer of 1924 when Mayor Edwin J. Brown went to Manhattan for the Democratic convention. While he was away she ordered the chief of police to clean up the city. He refused and she removed...
...days after her election, Mrs. Landes was riding with the Dean and he ran their automobile into a man by the name of Silvie Langlon, who was riding a motorcycle. Only the motorcyclist was hurt, however, and he not badly...
...suffering-drawn features. She saw blue eyes clear and gentle and compassionate. About those eyes she saw tiny wrinkles and knew for certain that the doctor could laugh, would gladly romp with her when she was well; and the tight feeling of fear about her beard! How nicely it ran down longer afraid. How "she would like to run her fingers through his silky beard. Plow nicely it ran down from his white hair past his big ears and around his chin! He was like a cleaned-up Santa Claus. And his big mustache was hanging like a curtain below...
...success of Ossian is hard to understand today When the poems were first published their fame ran over all Europe. What still survives is interest in the dispute over their authorship, a question which has never been answered...