Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ran on stage just five minutes after the curtain went up on the second act. It was a nervous, awkward little run, as if she would start at once with the business of the evening. But for the audience the business of the evening had begun. They would not wait to hear her sing. They clapped and clapped until Marion Talley had to give up being Gilda and bow many times, shy, awkward little bows as if she realized the time was not yet ripe for bowing. A few remembered they had come to hear her sing, hissed for quiet...
...Tolley, whose stool was a yard from the baseline. Possibly the ball was out; possibly the decision kept Miss Wills from winning the greatest match of her life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders of her worshipers, her purple face peering, like a ribald Nero's from a wreath of flowers...
...crowd by finishing third ahead of Tibbetts, the Crimson leader who was expected to lead the field. Goodwin of the New York A. C. crossed the line just ahead of Connolly, also of the New York A. C. in four minutes and 18 2-5 seconds. The Crimson miler ran his best race of the season to trail Connolly by only three yards. In the special half mile, Watters finished in last place...
...Island City, a steam roller rumbled and puffed through the snowy streets. But it was a new kind of steam roller. Its front looked more like a big boiler, which did not weigh heavily on the ground but pressed against it, sending aloft clouds of fleecy steam. Beneath it ran rivulets of slush. Behind it lay a street cleared of its matted snow. It was a snow melter, invented by John B. Lodge of Beacon, N. Y. The steam drum could be heated to 2,000 Fahrenheit by crude oil under compression burned within...
...coast to coast and from north to south,"is leading this pack of "Christians," and I am under the impression that this Edward Young Clarke is the same E. Y. C. who was formerly with the K. K. K., later convicted of violating the Mann Act in Texas, he ran off with the sister of some other villain, and fined $5,000, which he seems to have paid. This same E. Y. C. has also been in various other scrapes in Georgia courts...