Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telegraphic Brevities" which were brought out on a horse-car in the early hours of the morning from the Boston Herald office and which put the news of the world in the hands of the students via the Harvard Daily Herald, gave the latter sheet much prestige. However, it ran for only a year and a half under its original name, for in October, 1883, it consolidated with the CRIMSON under the title of Herald-Crimson. A year later the name became Daily Crimson, remaining so until 1891, when it assumed its present form...
...being arrested and fined for speeding, has objected to the State Department and received an apology and a refund of the fine. But Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland is a stern man. In Baltimore the car of Count Gian Franco Della Porta, attaché of the Italian Embassy, ran into the automobile of a citizen, one Marks. A policeman came up. The Count paid Mr. Marks $30 and departed. Then he entered a protest to the State Department-asked an apology and his money back, asserting that it had been extorted. Mr. Kellogg wrote to Mr. Ritchie...
When she was 19 she ran away to join the cast of Reckless Eve when that masterpiece was playing in Little Rock. The Fitches had told her she could take nothing out of their house, so she left wearing two dresses, with her blouse stuffed with trinkets. Reckless Eve got as far as Tulsa where it gasped, flopped twice, and lay still. Mary Lewis gave singing lessons to the soubrets and earned enough to buy a ticket to the Coast. After her season with Christie Comedies, she got an engagement with the Greenwich Village Follies, then with Mr. Ziegfeld...
...four schoolboys who did not weigh 150 pounds apiece, line up as the backfield of a little team from Maryland, they sent in all their substitutes and turned away their faces. At the end of the first half, Maryland had 14 points, Yale 10. Whistles blew, the Yale regulars ran in. Score at the end of the game: Yale 43, Maryland...
...Last week, on the walls of his bank, in gold letters several feet high, he set up a creed. The mural apothegms were none of them original, but they added no mean lustre to the commemoration of Banker Mitchell's 72nd birthday, his 52nd year in banking. They ran as follows...