Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest in question was over a $100,000 note signed by Procter and Sprague. Colonel Procter was obliged to pay off this note, and sued to recover half of the money from Colonel Sprague. Procter asserted that they were equally responsible for the note. Sprague asserted that Procter ran the whole campaign, spending money lavishly in spite of Sprague's protest, and that he signed the note with Procter merely as a secondary endorser so that the bank which discounted the note might know he was co-guarantor and had a part in the transaction...
...quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that . . . we will never abandon that view." 3) In London feeling ran high against Premier Baldwin "for not having read an English paper during his recent vacation at Aix-les-Bains." It was implied that he had let the British representatives who dealt with the Turks at Geneva get very much out of hand...
...Author. "Alfred Edward Newton was born in Philadelphia more years ago than he cares to remember; his weight is a matter of confidence." He ran away from school to work for Cyrus Hermann Kotschmar Curtis when that famed publisher was starting the Ladies' Home Journal, and entered business for himself at 20. He knew nothing then of electricity, "knows less today," yet is now president of a large concern making electrical apparatus (Cutter Electric & Manufacturing Co.) by reason of a genius for not interfering with men trained to their jobs. "He smokes incessantly, has no love for automobiles, regards...
half score or more years ago George S. Kaufman wrote a musical comedy with Marc Connelly and peddled it about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play...
...Cornell ran riot against a bulky but impotent team from Susquehanna to an 80-0 victory...