Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hylan announced that he was "happy." Mr. Hearst ran his picture with that word over it. "Mayor Hylan was the victim of as brutal a bludgeoning as modern politics ever devised. Way back last winter the plans for it were laid in the inner councils of Wall Street." The Mayor let it be known after a conference with Hearst representatives that he would not run on an independent ticket in the coming election?...
...Lloyd George as he read the comment on his speech, "to be taken seriously," "a new, vitalizing and challenging idea," perhaps he dreamed a little of homing, coming to the Government bench in the House?until his eye ran on "obsolete policy." "raises the spectre of agrarian strife," "a mere bundle of details...
...Secretary of the Illinois Fundamentalist Association ... I did not see the beginning of the first holdup, but when I looked up there were two women, apparently drunk, who had been in the grasp of two men. The women had broken away, and, as I watched, the two men ran up an alley and disappeared . . . About two blocks farther I saw a man who had been pinioned by two other men. One of them was behind him and had hold of his wrist, and the other had a hand in the man's pocket. . A woman came running...
...front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages). Initial letters were used at the beginning of paragraphs. There were no subheads. Rarely does any paper achieve such a dignity in journalism-still more rarely the Miami Herald...
...small blue and gold airplane postured above them in a sunbeam. It climbed against a curtain of cloud, glided in minute undulations as if it ran on tiptoes, then pirouetted sharply with a flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...